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Originally Posted by Damien

Plurality refers to the news media as a whole doesn't it? Which means you need to factor in News International with The Sun, The Times, The Sunday Times and their respective websites. News Corp would be quite dominant if they control that portion of the media. Single providers are pretty dangerous, after all it wouldn't have been any of those papers or Sky breaking the news about the hacking scandal.

Sure.

http://conservativehome.blogs.com/pl...ntgomerie.html

Ignoring his rhetoric the charts are from the Ofcom investigation, so let's break up what is by far the largest source of news in the UK, given that single providers are pretty dangerous.

Newspapers in print format are on their last legs, online news is taking over and guess who has by a mile the largest share of that market, yep the BBC, followed by The Daily Fail, then The Guardian.

Plurality is a total straw man argument when it doesn't apply to the BBC also.

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Originally Posted by Tuftus

You know, that's fantastic. I just love that pot kettle etc (right click, saves as)

I was discussing this with the mrs over dinner and it came back to what i said earlier in this thread.

WHY are MP's getting involved in the questioning?

IF it is deemed to be criminal, leave it to the Police. That is what they are good at, all the politicians will do is spiiiiiiiiiiiiin.

Right, where did I leave my flame suit?

Because it makes them look 'tough' to the electorate.

It's actually none of their business, and the vote they are having on the takeover of BSkyB is again none of their business and a publicity stunt - on our wallet.

I can think of a few choice words to describe this opportunistic bunch of bumholes, I'll content myself with wishing that they would deal with genuine issues rather than having a competition of who can wring their hands the most.

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Originally Posted by TheDon

Because the police have done a GREAT job investigating this to begin with. All of this could have came to light YEARS ago, instead they did a rush job to just deal with the Royal hackings, and forgot about everything else despite having a ton of evidence that they'd targeted 4000 others!

Half the problem's that the police were accepting money from NI for information (within the law mind according to Ms Brooks, quite how you legally pay a police officer for information I don't know). They'll surely do a stellar job investigating those claims I'm sure, it's not like the met doesn't have a fabulous reputation for investigating their own.

Parliament is hardly in a more unbiased position given both the PM and leader of the opposition were partying with Murdoch just a few weeks ago.

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Originally Posted by dave6x

Listening to Gordon Brown today, and also some of the statements made by Cameron it is clear that they knew long ago that News International rags were gaining information by dubious means. The worrying part is that they chose to do nothing rather than upset the cosy relationship they had built up. The integrity of many senior politicians is again seriously in question!!!

Yep they were more worried about News International dishing whatever dirt it had on them than exposing this.

We're all getting a little insight into the dirty little machinations between politicians and media.

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Originally Posted by denphone

Its seems that News Corp has had its tentacles everywhere and has also corrupted many politicians.journalists, police. officials and criminals in the process and now its seems that people are getting the courage to stand up to the nefarious Murdoch and his company.

Not really, he's just having the spotlight shined on him and his lot as their dodgy behaviour is out in the open somewhat. It pretty much goes without saying, although given the amount of gloating going on perhaps it does need saying, that this total lack of morality in pursuit of a story is far from exclusive to News International, and no doubt other media groups are soiling themselves wondering when the spotlight will shine on them and their own dirty dealings.

I personally would love to see them pack it in in the UK and in the process dish all the dirt they have on our politicians and other media sources. That would be entertainment