The left are jumping with joy that Rupert Murdoch, their bête noire, has been damaged by the News of the World scandal and now want to see the BSkyB deal get spiked too.
Murdoch has never been popular with the liberal and left of centre but losing the support of the Sun before the last general election was the last nail in any relationship that might have existed.
The Murdoch owned media is almost exclusively right of centre in its output and clearly the left don't want to see an increasingly powerful media player with a quasi-political agenda. They are probably right to feel uncomfortable about that.
On a different note.
The BBC is almost exclusively left of centre in its output and clearly the right don't want to see an increasingly powerful media player with a quasi-political agenda. They are probably right to feel uncomfortable about that.
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What rubbish. You are deliberately trying to make us think that the BBC political bias is equivalent to News Corp.
The BBC is governed by rules that maintain impartiality (not perfectly but better than any other medium in the world). Murdoch is not governed by any such rules and his newspapers deliberately target politicians who he does not agree with or do not do his bidding. That is why politicians are so keen to cosy up to this media mogul rather than addressing the monopolistic situation that has developed. The BskyB takeover is just another step in the further consolidation of this monopoly, but still not politicians have the guts to stand up to Murdoch (Cable tried and almost lost his job as a result).
You really don't get it do you?
Some very good points and well made, James. There have been some very pious outpourings in the last few days from the BBC, who wish to remain as the only media monopoly in the country.
Let us not forget who courted News international and were cosied up with them when this whole sorded affair was taking place - New Labour. I expect NI felt they were protected as long as Tony, Gordon, Alastair et al were fawning over them.
Gordon Brown's outburst has left me a little cold, as the facts don't really add up - Brown never complained at the time, in fact he issued a statement to all the papers and then went on the GMTV sofa to talk about it a week later. He was then so upset he went to Brooks' wedding and his wife invited Brooks to a sleepover at Chequers. While The Sun was supporting Labour, he never said a word. All of a sudden there's a bandwagon to jump on...the man's shameless!!!
I expect this one has a while to run yet- next up for examination though is Ed Miliband's own head of communications, Tom Baldwin, and his questionable ethics.........
James is a bit of an expert on bandwagons...
Interesting development - the Guardian has apologised to the Sun for reporting that it accessed Gordon Brown's son's medical records.
"In fact the information came from a different source and the Guardian apologises for its error," the paper wrote in its corrections column.
Opportunistic hypocrisy at it's best! The lies of the liberal media exposed for all to see.
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