Sooner or later he will over-reach himself

What should we make about the current media coverage about the Duke of York?  Am I alone in thinking this is all vacuous hot air?  What exactly is the accusation against him?   There is an unsettling piece by Rachel Sylvester in The Times today.  Entirely made up of innuendo and trashy prejudice.  This rubbishy journalism is one of the reasons Rupert Murdoch operations are so unacceptable in a civilized society.   Aldous Huxley in the 1930s identified that people (he actually wrote "the masses") crave sensations, and that a tabloid press was emerging based on sensationalizing the content of their newspapers irrespective of truth or decency.  The genius of Rupert Murdoch is that he has not only perfected the tabloid as a conveyor of sensations (as with the C2 D and E orientated Sun and News of the World) but that he has also taken the sensationalist format (I could almost say ideology) and put it into The Times and the Sunday Times where established brand names and fine writing give it a veneer of respectability and acceptability, opening up new audiences of As Bs and C1s.  Thus you have respected journalists and public figures writing pieces that have a disguised subtext of cruelty, bullying, salacious eroticism, destruction for its own sake, violence for its own sake, envy etc.   The only consolation is that sooner or later he will over-reach himself (perhaps he already has with the 'phone-hacking scandal).