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James Murdoch Criticizes BBC For Providing "Free News"
Hugh Pickens writes "News Corporation's James Murdoch says that a 'dominant' BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK and that free news on the web provided by the BBC made it 'incredibly difficult' for private news organizations to ask people to pay for their news. 'It is essential for the future of independent digital journalism that a fair price can be charged for news to people who value it,' says Murdoch. 'The expansion of state-sponsored journalism is a threat to the plurality and independence of news provision.' In common with the public broadcasting organizations of many other European countries, the BBC is funded by a television license fee charged to all households owning a television capable of receiving broadcasts. Murdoch's News Corporation, one of the world's largest media conglomerates, owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers and pay TV provider BSkyB in the UK and the New York Post, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News TV in the US." Note that James Murdoch is the son of Rupert Murdoch.
it is not free, it is paid for upfront via the license fee. the man is a yellow squirt of idiot.
bring bak the ponies!!
Oh please, like the BBC doesn't have an agenda. Murdoch's right, a little competition is a good thing even in the News media. Personally I don't think it even makes sense to assume Truth in any of the drivel they feed us through the TV. The revolution will not be televised precisely because we PAY FOR IT!
You say "right wing nutjobs" but I think you mean "people who disagree with the BBC". Those are exactly the people I would expect to provide the most information on how the BBC is biased.
If you wanted evidence of Fox News bias, you would probably not ask a Republican. You would probably ask a Democrat. Particularly a Democrat who had been reporting on Fox News bias for some time.
Equally if you want evidence of BBC bias, you need to get it from elsewhere in the political spectrum. Don't you think?
The tao of democracy: the government you can vote for is not the real government.
>>>hardly worse than what CNN or F/X News accomplishes with deliberate imbalance. I mean, is it even possible to conduct ethical journalism filming from the deck of an operational U.S. aircraft carrier?
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I don't know. Why don't we ask NBC anchorman Matt Lauer who spent a week on an aircraft carrier. POINT - Everyone always picks on FOX News, as if they are somehow soooo much worse than the rest of the channels. But they are ALL biased, mostly in favor of the party the reporters are registered with (D).
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>I'd trust the BBC any day of the week over "news" reported by a Murdoch mouthpiece.
I disagree. Not that I have any great love fox Murdoch, but I don't trust the BBC either. They are as slanted as PBS, constantly trying to explain why we need more and bigger government programs. I don't need to hear that bias. Just once I'd like to hear either the BBC or PBS present a story about why government needs to be smaller, but of course that will never happen.
And you know that's the truth. Even when PBS discusses persons like Thomas Jefferson, they conveniently leave out certain facts, like he said citizens should shoot tyrannical leaders. Or that he he said states should nullify unconstitutional laws passed by Congress (per amendment 10). Or that he felt a Central Bank (think Federal Reserve) should not exist, because money == power to influence politicians. Or "When people fear government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty."
PBS very carefully censors what they reveal, in order to continue supporting their "we need more government" viewpoint. Case in point - this morning they interviewed a guy for 10 minutes about why everyone should be pro-government-run healthcare. Never once did they cover the other side.
Slanted. Biased.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>Whine all you want you little asshole, but gov't-funded healthcare is coming, and you are going to help pay for it, whether you like it or not. There is nothing you are capable of saying or doing that will change that. ^_^
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Yes I know.
Because Democrats refuse to listen to
the people's voices that are crying out to stop.
But there IS still something I can do. If Congress follows through on its plan to fine Americans ~$2000 per year for not having private insurance, as Massachusetts already does with its citizens, then I will simply refuse to pay. And if the IRS comes after me, then I will hire a gaggle of lawyers to file a lawsuit - C64_love v. United States. I will NOT bow to an unconstitutional law because *nowhere* does our supreme law give Congress the authority to fine people for not buying a product.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a TV comedy show, but not the Koran.
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23371706-details/Yes,%20we%20are%20biased%20on%20religion%20and%20politics,%20admit%20BBC%20executives/article.do
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-411846/We-biased-admit-stars-BBC-News.html
And straight from the horses mouth:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6763205.stm
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