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Author:  Linux_User [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:20 am ]
Post subject:  The BBC vs. Murdoch
Let's get down to the nitty gritty. Murdoch doesn't like the BBC, its website or its 24-hour news channel because it means he can't charge for the equivalent services that he offers when they're around. So he wants rid of them so that suddenly Sky News can be subscription only and he can charge for online content too without losing "customers" to the BBC.

Well I say [LIFTED] Murdoch, who's with me? As John Prescott pointed out recently, the BBC costs each household just 39p per day, which is less than half of a decent newspaper. The BBC, whilst not quite at the quality level I expect (there's a lot of dumbing-down I feel), is most certainly the best news broadcaster around at the moment.

I have absolutely no faith in BSKYB, Fox News or Sky News to present news in a manner that is impartial, to tell the whole story or even report stories that are negative for their companies/partners. Instead, they will use their news channel to push their own point-of-view, their own agenda and selectively report the news, much like Murdoch already does with the Scum.
Author:  cloaked_wolf [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:45 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The BBC vs. Murdoch
There's already a thread here clciky
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 10:48 am ]
Post subject:  Re: The BBC vs. Murdoch
+1, and it'll never happen, but I'd find a neutral ground televised (or even online video debate) with, say, James Murdoch and the BBC's DG Mark Thompson very interesting :)
Author:  pcernie [ Sun Aug 30, 2009 12:28 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: The BBC vs. Murdoch
BBC's Robert Peston in furious face-to-face row with James Murdoch

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/au ... urdoch-bbc

While that was funny and informative ;) , this bit caught my eye:

Quote:
But Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards defended the regulator, saying regulation was a "much more subtle set of issues. We are a million miles from the kind of intervention and micromanagement that is sometimes described."

However, Richards said he agreed with Murdoch when it came to the BBC.

"It is one of the big issues of the day where I very much agree with James," he said. "When the BBC started it could get on with it, such as launch BBC1 and BBC2, and there was no market impact. It would be completely different now, we have to accept that."


Doesn't exactly mark Ofcom out as being an 'independent regulator', does it? Especially considering he appears to already be voicing his views in a debate that could actually go somewhere...
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