In a sworn testimony before a UK media ethics inquiry, Prime Minister David Cameron has admitted that the press and politicians had gotten too close and needed to change their cosy relationship.
In his testimony, Cameron spelled out his media strategy when he became Conservative Party leader, saying he tried to "win back" newspapers that had traditionally backed his party but had been successfully wooed by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and the Labour Party.
Cameron also defended his ill-fated decision to make disgraced tabloid editor Andy Coulson his communications director, who was forced to resign from his senior government post last year after new revelations about widespread wrongdoing at his newspaper.
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