Reducing journalism to a branch of corporate and government public relations is the hidden agenda of the media deregulators, in Britain and America.

Offers observations on media censorship in Great Britain, the United States and Australia. Description of an incident in which an introductory statement by Australian Prime Minister John Howard that would have explained his choice of reading material in a public reading was excised by the Australian Broadcasting Corp.; Suggestion that media censorship is a function of media deregulation in Britain and the U.S.; State funding of the ABC, which may explain its censorship proclivities; U.S.-style censorship; Consequences of U.S. and British media policies, including mass consolidation of news agents.