Thread: Rupert Murdoch's finally gets his hand on Sky
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Old 16-12-2016, 14:21   #41
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Re: Rupert Murdoch's finally gets his hand on Sky
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
If you want not-for-profit TV there's always the BBC.

Murdoch will do whatever turns a profit as with Sky before his takeover. I don't expect to see much change unlike the doom mongers here.
I really don't see what profit has to do with it. Without profit, multi-channel TV in this country wouldn't have appeared for many years.

The BBC is widely regarded as politically neutral, but it very plainly is not. We do need a counterbalance to that left leaning organisation and Sky News is well placed to deliver this.

There are rules in this country about political balance and additional safeguards can be introduced by having the independent editorial team that was offered last time around.

I don't like the Murdochs an awful lot myself, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be allowed to run the businesses that they are actually pretty good at running. They have done a very good job at bringing all those TV channels to us, with so much entertainment including films and sport. Shame about the cost, but I dare say the costs are not a long way off from what they are in the US.

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Originally Posted by TheDaddy View Post
I think he should be stopped from owning it on general principle. For no other reason than its him and imo he's not a nice individual.
H'mm. So in your world, you would ban people from conducting business because you didn't like them.

Obviously you have lots of friends yourself and would not be hoisted by your own petard.

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Originally Posted by denphone View Post
It will be interesting on how the government approaches this as the prime minister said on the door of Downing Street when she became PM to the people of this country that 'when we take the big calls, we'll think not of the powerful, but you'.
And, no doubt, our Theresa would conclude that we all benefit from his multi channel offerings and he should be left alone to deliver the programmes we love to watch!
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