Truemors
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
Rupert Murdoch has been asking for the BBC to be shut down
Share:
by The_Cynic | June 26, 2009 at 04:06 pm
124 views | 2 Recommendations | 1 comment
Now that Ofcom is saying that Sky, his baby in the UK, may have to open some of its content – he is pissed. OK, not him directly, but the company itself.
Why would that be methinks?
I thought that Murdoch was the lord and master of open, free, markets? Yet – as most people know who do have Sky TV, and another argument rumbles on, Sky sells its content to both customer and other media outlets – at a great profit one would presume, why would they be talking law suit if not?
If you believe in free markets then you believe in competition – yet Sky isn’t in competition with anyone because they have the lions share – and they are not going to let go any time soon, unless the regulators says they have to.
Is this a matter that the shoe is now on the other foot? May be Sky should keep its nose out of other peoples business and consentrate on its own – after all Sky out bids everyone when it comes to sports which, in turn, makes people get a dish so they can see a football match.
Ofcom could, I suppose, ban Sky from bidding for 5 years until the balance is brought back into the market – how would that go down?
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (1)
at 17:27 on June 26th, 2009
The moral compass of the Murdoch empire has always spun wildly but a deeper examination is needed into one of his UK publications, The Sun tabloid.
The 2003 Sexual Offenses Act finally put paid to The Sun's famous / infamous Page 3 topless girls that had at times featured topless and sexually explicit snaps of girls as young as 15 including the most famous-Samantha Fox who first appeared at age 16. Although Page 3 girls live on, they are now over the legal age for publication, 18.
But that leaves any reader who had a penchant for collecting these Page 3 snaps-and it was encouraged by the newspaper-in danger of being arrested and charged with the possession of child pornography. So legally,where does that leave all who commissioned, photographed, produced and distributed this material ?.
In the UK there is no time limit on the commission of sex offenses and people are arrested and charged for crimes that can date back 40 years. Such is the case in the bizarre Haute de la Guerre scandal where a 50 year old man has been charged with offenses alleged to have been committed against fellow residents when he was between age 12 and 14 at the time.