Peter Mandelson declares war on Rupert Murdoch's media empire

[CHIMO]

Source: guardian.co.uk

Lord Mandelson declared war on the Murdoch empire today when he accused News Corporation of maintaining an "iron grip" on pay television and warned that the company wants to import rightwing Fox News-style journalism to Britain.

In his strongest attacks on News Corp since the Sun abandoned its support for Labour hours after Gordon Brown's party conference speech, the business secretary accused the company of imperilling the traditions of British broadcasting.

Mandelson's intervention came as Rupert Murdoch faces a growing fight with the Australian government over a controversial tax avoidance scheme put in place when News Corp moved its headquarters to the US. Sydney tax commissioners claim that an elaborate series of legal manoeuvres, dubbed "flip and spin" by News Corp, wrongly deprived authorities in Australia, Britain and the US of billions of dollars in capital gains tax.

In a sign that Murdoch also faces a fight in Britain, Mandelson turned his fire on a joint Tory-News Corp campaign to dismantle the broadcasting regulator, Ofcom. The business secretary, who claimed last month that the Sun had agreed a "contract" with the Conservatives in which David Cameron would help News Corp's business interests, told peers: "There are some in the commercial sector who believe that the future of British media would be served by cutting back the role of the media regulator. They take this view because they want to commandeer more space and income for themselves and because they want to maintain their iron grip on pay-TV, a market in which many viewers feel they are paying more than they should for their music and sport. They also want to erode the commitment to impartiality. In other words, to fill British airwaves with more Fox-style news."


Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/02/peter-mandelson-rupert-murdoch-war

[edbermac]

1. Now there's a war I support!

Take no prisoners!

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. Here, here!

Kick some Murdoch ass Lord Mandelson!

Murdoch is as dirty as they come.

[Wizard777]

3. All Hail Lord Mandelson!

Let the FOX hunt begin!

[fascisthunter]

4. fascists like Murdoch are hoping to destroy journalism

and replace it all with political economic propaganda to keep people in the dark. He should NEVER have been to buy up as much as he did.

[santamargarita]

5. And we need to be destroying the fascists

~

[CBHagman]

6. Where do I enlist?

I remember that the GOP helped loosen media ownership rules to cater to evil old Rupert the M. back in the '90s. Glad to see someone's fighting him instead of bending over.

[Divine Discontent]

7. what a good guy! great to hear!

[gleaner]

8. Good for them!

They are actually paying attention to Murdoch's profiteering and trying to act in the best interests of their country. I wonder what that would feel like?

[Blue Owl]

9. Fighting Fox News

is fighting the war on errors!

[Odin2005]

10. GOOD! Murdoch is a cancer on our global society.

Where's my gun?

[Uncle Joe]

11. I salute Lord Mandelson

:patriot:

Kicked, but too late to recommend.

Thanks for the thread, CHIMO:thumbsup:

[bbking]

12. Rupert Murdoch is a MORON !

The diversionary complaints of Ruper Murdoch are a red herring, if you want the truth with respect to what he is whining about, READ THIS !


http://surftofind.com/stage





GET IT? The networks are no longer credible because they are not in a position to investigate the truth. They are merely trying to please their base -the right wing and left wing wackos who dominate the airwaves.

Needless to say, we get to the truth through the Internet, not through all the clueless, right wing and left wing wackos !

[Doctor_J]

13. there are left wing wackos on the air?

can you name one?

I hope you are able to respond before you're tombstoned. And I hope Murdoch and everyone who works for him gets a real tombstone before that