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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.
I can summarise most peoples' response to this: Ahahahahahahahahaha
No, they sued and won for the right to fire employees for refusing to lie to you.
Go green: turn off your refrigerator.
NOAA forecasts are not available to non-U.S. citizens (or if they are available, have no value way over in Europe).
Likewise it makes sense that BBC news should not be available to non-UK citizens, just as radio and television programs websites are blocked. Non-citizens have not paid the BBC license.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
I think you are correct and most undeserving of a Flamebait moderation.
The BBC is left wing, in the social sense of the word. The BBC slavishly supports the New Labour social programmes, from really big things like the public sector expansion, the quangos and the NHS, through the whole authoritarian anti-terror laws, right down to small but important things like political correctness and the doctrine of equality. New Labour may not be left wing in economic terms, but in terms of social policy, they are most definitely hard left.
The BBC helped New Labour gain power, and celebrated when they did:
And now the BBC is using its considerable power to ensure that the Conservatives must continue to support New Labour policy, even though it has led Britain into recession and is badly in need of reform.
The BBC's greatest achievement is making people believe that "left wing = good". The BBC has done this incredibly well. I see that one of your other replies conflates "right wing" with "Islamic dictatorship".. well, we can thank the BBC for that one. And another suggests that you are "off with Enoch Powell". I suspect this is meant as an insult, implying you are a racist, although the poster may be aware of Tony Blair's gushing praise for Mr Powell on his death in 1998 and may simply be implying that you are a Blairite.
The tao of democracy: the government you can vote for is not the real government.
Because Democrats refuse to listen to the people's voices that are crying out to stop.
Why should they? It's a vocal minority mostly consisting of crackpots. The majority of the people support universal healthcare.
... and then they built the supercollider.
>>> (snip) ...PBS could safely leave them with zero air time... (snip)
So then you admit that PBS is biased in favor of the Democrats/leftists. Thank you for agreeing with me. Oh and the alternative proposed by Republicans is to merely make minor changes to the system we have, such as extending Medicare to the 3% of Americans who want insurance, but are not private or government covered. Simple as that.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
>>>I expect you to decline Medicare coverage
According to that nifty little piece-of-paper the U.S, government sends me every year, I've paid-in about $20,000 to Medicare so when I turn ~70 I'm certainly going to sign up. I want back my twenty thousand dollars. Same applies to SSI. After I've got all my money back that I paid in, then sure I'll drop out. ----- In the meantime I have half-a-million in the bank (and rising), so I can afford to pay for my own ~$200 per year doctor visit. I don't need insurance, either private or government.
Thanks.
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall