... the former chief political commentator of The Telegraph, Peter Oborne, ... resigned from the paper and launched a blistering attack on the Telegraph, saying it put bank’s interests before readers to save [an] ad contract.
According to the Guardian, "Peter Oborne, the Daily Telegraph’s chief political commentator, has resigned from the paper, accusing it of a “fraud on its readers” over its coverage of HSBC. In a blistering attack on the paper’s management and owners, Sir David and Sir Frederick Barclay, Oborne claimed the paper deliberately suppressed stories about the banking group in order to keep its valuable advertising account. He said it was a “most sinister development” at the paper, where he claimed the traditional distinction between the advertising and editorial department had collapsed."
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-02-17/honesty-shocker-telegraphs-political-commentator-quits-over-hsbc-coverage-accuses-pa
The "traditional distinction between the advertising and editorial departments" does not seem to exist in US newspapers either. They appear to shamelessly sell the lies their owners or advertisers want, and the truth be damned.
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