Phone hacking: Murdoch empire must be broken up, says Ed Miliband

[harvey007]

Source: The Telegraph

In a fresh salvo against Mr Murdoch's News Corp, the Labour leader said he wanted to forge a cross-party agreement on plans that would reduce the media mogul's UK market share.
In an interview with The Observer, he said: ''I think he has too much power over British public life.''

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/8643013/Phone-hacking-Murdoch-empire-must-be-broken-up-says-Ed-Miliband.html

[Stuart G]

1. k & r

[Jackpine Radical]

2. That'll leave him free to buy up the rest of the US media

soon as holder gets done clearing him of everything.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Seize their FCC license immediately

[Bluesbreaker]

4. We need anti-trust action against U.S. corporate media

That's why we only get the corporate version of news, when we're being fed infotainment.

[harun]

5. +1

[go west young man]

6. If only the U.S. had the brains and foresight to see how

Faux/ Murdoch is fucking up the country. They are a cancer. Beck grew from it.
The Tea Baggers grew from it. The Iraq War grew from it. The worst U.S. president ever
grew from it. Faux is the head of the hydra. Cut that fucker off and save the whole
country in the process. It would be the best thing America has done in the last two
decades.

[tblue37]

11. We will always have the Kochs, Richard Mellon Scaife, the Carlyle Group,

and other American-grown rich guys and their evil empires to deal with, too, so although getting rid of Murdoch's influence would help, it wouldn't solve all our RW problems.

[and-justice-for-all]

7. Destroy him!!!!! nt

[Turborama]

8. Rupert Murdoch's Empire Must Be Dismantled – (Labour Leader) Ed Miliband

Source: The Guardian

Toby Helm, Jamie Doward and Daniel Boffey | Saturday July 16 2011 21.00 BST

Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking.

In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour leader calls for cross-party agreement on new media ownership laws that would cut Murdoch's current market share, arguing that he has "too much power over British public life".

Miliband says that the abandonment by News International of its bid for BSkyB, the resignation of its chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, and the closure of the News of the World are insufficient to restore trust and reassure the public.

The Labour leader argues that current media ownership rules are outdated, describing them as "analogue rules for a digital age" that do not take into account the advent of mass digital and satellite broadcasting.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/16/rupert-murdoch-ed-miliband-phone-hacking

[yurbud]

10. Can Americans make campaign contribution to British pols?

[Peace Patriot]

9. The biggest K&R I've ever given! DISMANTLE him! nt

[coyote]

12. I really want to know who Murdoch pissed off. N/T

[jmowreader]

13. The entirety of the British Isles, I think

The News of the World is as much a British institution as the pub, steak & kidney pie, and Manchester United. Murdoch destroyed it for greed. SOMEONE has to pay for that.

[dipsydoodle]

14. The entirety of the British Isles

have probably got more on their minds like jobs , housing , rising fuel costs etc. Its odd really you don't have the same issues over there. :sarcasm:

Chances are the majority of the British public couldn't give a shit about the Murdochs.

[CJCRANE]

16. His organization spied on 4000 people including royals, politicians, celebrities, the families...

of murder victims and war casualties...that is just about anyone who was in the news.

[JHB]

15. Gosh, you mean media conslidation could be a bad thing?

That maybe those old regulations limiting ownership of multiple outlets in a geographic area might have been worth keeping?

That maybe the deregulatory Republicans and DLC/Third Wayers had it wrong despite being warned by the same people they ignored at every opportunity ("anti-business," you know)?

Do tell.

[pacalo]

17. I don't care if he's made himself a U.S. citizen; why should that scurvy little Australian have so

much power in the U.S.?

Look how he has deteriorated our once-revered media. People are so turned off by the kid-glove treatment given to the Republicans, they have cancelled their newspaper subscriptions & cable tv & are FLOCKING to the internet to get the unvarnished truth.

After all the cheerleading for the Bush/Cheney regime, it was British newspapers I turned to for actual news. That was when I stopped getting the newspaper. Only the British media didn't stand for the government manipulations going on then.