The Corrupt Corrupted

And the latest news is that (of course)
news of the world is now the late
unlamented tabloid News of the World.
Its owner and trusted editors
dedicated to revealing all the news
unfit to print by means unfair and
decidedly foul, find it exceedingly
expedient to declare wholeheartedly
their most profound regrets: "sorry".

It has indeed been a sorry spectacle
to witness political, social and
security elite stumbling their way
to utterly unconditional,purple-prose
outrage at the immoral, illegal,
imprudent and horribly inconvenient,
irritating malfeasance undertaken
in the interests of scooping tawdry
sales worthily-shocking tidbits.

The corporation, a powerful influence
whose funding and support so many
relied upon to achieve success was
feared, feted and ferociously favoured
by Britain's movers and shakers
courting the influence that aided them
admirably to mount prominence, position.

Dissolved, all, in a scandalous series
of revelations, of ambition unloosed
and prattling lips unsealed to irrevocably
link their endeavours with shoddy,
shady morals condemning all in an
acid bath of public censure, gossip
gone berserk, breaking helter-skelter
into the conspicuous realm of reality.