defn is quite right - Murdoch famously threatened a politician with "a headline a day or a bucket of shit a day" - a clear "abuse" of journalistic power in exchange for political influence. Horror.
Whether or not that actual threat occurred, the press, lead by the Murdoch press, have used their considerable power to threaten, bully and cajole politicians, police and others into doing what they the newspapers wanted.
(infamously the phone hacking scandal in the UK, where the CEO of murdochs empire, and the prime ministers press head honcho have both been charged with a range of such crimes, and Murdoch only avoided it because no one found the emaisl or phone conversations where he was told where his newspapers were getting good stories from.) I am a little bit bitter about "freedom of the press" being seen as a right without duties.