James Murdoch had a lot of press lately after his lecture in Edinburgh. Apparently he turned down requests to speak at previous Edinburgh Festivals, but today the time is right for him to lambast the UK.
He doesn’t like the BBC, he doesn’t like Ofcom, and he doesn’t like Channel 4.
Murdoch wants to get rid of all authority in his way, so that the commercial sector can ‘dominate’.
Murdoch isn’t British, and doesn’t hold British principles. His main drive is profit. Have you seen Sky News? That’s what profit does to impartial and unbiased news.
Some of us want to pay for the BBC, want Ofcom to regulate what the market does, and want Channel 4 to keep pushing the boundaries. We don’t want endless repeats on satellite channels, because all the money is going on movies and sport.
Free news on the web? Well, if I’m paying the BBC £142.50 per year to give me free news, I want them to. I don’t want news biased by the Times, The Sun, or any other paper, unless I specifically want it, and am willing to pay. If your news is too biased, and you lose money, that’s not my fault.
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