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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.
"One of the world's largest" is actually number two, according to Wikipedia, behind Disney. So now we know what his real target is. The Mouse.
Now, that's something you didn't see on the BBC.
"owns the Times, the Sunday Times and Sun newspapers"
Sorry you can't call The Sun a 'newspaper'! Seriously, a publication who's most popular story today is entitled "I had walk with a yeti on holiday"??
And you'll get, essentially, the same forecast you'd get from the local media. After all, the NWS is where they get their weather info from.
WRONG My local ABC/CBS/NBC/FOX affiliates all employ highly trained meteorologists who more often than not have won many prestigious awards and have access to the latest ACU-DOPLER 4000 weather satellites/radar nodes/whirlybirds.
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Geez, you had a senator named after the excreta of anal sex? Is he a friend of the ex-president named after a woman's pubes?
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.
It's not like they'd ever run a story on Thomas Jefferson.
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Don't tell me it's News Corp. vs. Disney -- I won't know who to root against. I mean, that's like the media conglomerate edition of Alien vs. Predator!
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Isn't it funny how 90% of Americans are "far left of center" according to Fox News Viewer? That crazy majority of rational people are just the "far far left"... I guess that could happen but for some reason I doubt it. Of course we'll all be sorry when the proof comes out that Iraq perpetrated 9-11 and that Obama is going to kill our grandmothers.
That's fairly easy to see on the mainstream new world order bilderberger news. Government press official being quoted..odds on to be lying, that would be anyone in the executive branch. It gets accepted as gospel and repuked back at you by the newsies, no matter how completely improbable or out to lunch sounding.
In the legislative branch, elected reps and so on, odds are..clueless and just drunkenly mumbling stuff they have no idea about whatsoever based on the lies some biz schmuck or lobbist/PR flack told them or their cheaply bribed off "aides" to say and that they sorta half remember. They just stick you with that stuff.
News reporter interviewing or quoting the big big biz schmuck..odds on lying, even if lie is suspected, reporter with blowdried hair just flashes the big smiles and repukes it back, sometimes with asinine "analysis" later one by a roundtable of previous and now much older blow dried and lacquered (and plastered) bilderberger re-pukers. They are now distinguished drunk old re-pukers.
All the odds of lying go up drastically if the subject has to do with a lot of money (the more the money amount is, the more are the odds of the principles involved lying about it somehow, current example: any dang thing whatsoever from the Fed or Treasury or casino bank) or some event or another which would prove to be an embarrassment or illegality committed.
THOSE latter two are pretty much pure lies all the time, the easiest to see. As in, when is the last time anyone official just slap admitted to guilt or major screwup right off the bat? Never, ever, ever, nevah happens, goes from the simple small town cop being a sadist beast and the chief defending his actions automatically, while everyone can stare at the bloody videotape, all the way to lying about profound events with huge international repercussions like the "tonkin gulf attack" which never happened, or the "huge stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction and saddam and osama both did 911 together honest we swear it they even bunk together on piles of yellowcake and the robot drone planes with biowarfare agents are warmed up ready to blast amerika in 45 minutes" type lies and so on.
The older I get the more cynical I get about this stuff because eventually the truth comes out about this or that big deal from the past, even if it takes decades, and you then realize how *much* you've been lied to in the past by the press, the controlled press I mean, the ones just that repuke the lies fed to them.
My default these days is..they are lying. Much safer to assume that than not.
Deliberate lies, or lies of omission, either or both mixed together. What they leave out that is important and DON'T report about is usually the very best stuff, the most important to know about. Or they get sorta sneaky about it, pump up some inane story about some drug addled celebrity hijinks (Britney pregnant with Michael's frozen sperm!! Wow! Some team scored some number that is a bigger number than this other team!! And that's a record!! that sorta drivel..), run with that for days, and stick the important stuff (if they cover it at all) with barely ten words to cover it buried in the newscast with a ten second low key soundbite or published on page 17, section D in the paper.
Modern news from all the big boys has about as much truth to it as big time rasslin'. It's controlled, orchestrated and scripted, designed to do anything BUT inform. At the best, cutting them tons of slack which they don't deserve, especially the public airwave hijack folks, it's designed to entertain and sell you little purple pills and soap flakes and over priced ego big dick shiny cars, at the worst, and what I think is the major reason it even continues in the form it is today, is it is deliberate propaganda to keep the serfs faked out, and to keep them occupied with each other and pointing fingers at each other for someone to blame for all their mostly self inflicted wo
Talk to the hand.
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