The Listening Post: The Murdoch Empire Vs. The BBC, How News Corp. Sees The BBC As A Global "Threat"

[Turborama]

Run time: 13:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHAVOz4fXBk   Posted on YouTube: September 04, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: September 04, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1064

 
The story about Murdoch's attempt to take on the BBC starts at 58 secs in and finishes at 8 mins 30 secs. Murdoch Jr says that the BBC is a threat to "Independent journalism". WTF? I guess he hopes that none of his audience know about the right wing ideologically driven corpocratic nature of his father's "news" channel in the US. They are obviously worried that the BBC's global presence is a threat to their agenda of spreading neocon propaganda across the world. It is also a clear sign that they are feeling the pinch with falling advertising revenue.

Included in this is actually a good but brief insight into Faux Vs the BBC's coverage of the Iraq war, too.

I hope Al Jazeera English continues to expose Murdoch's evil empire like this. One thing they didn't mention is that, as well as India, Star TV is broadcast in Malaysia and Indonesia. Faux has just started being broadcast across the whole of Indonesia as well which is totally inappropriate, considering its heavy Neocon & racist slant. At least BBC World & Al Jazeera English are also broadcast across Indonesia as very worthy antidotes, though.

The UK's Independent had a good article about this Murdoch Vs BBC battle last Sunday. Judging by what's mentioned in it, If Britain's CONservatives win their next election the Brits can expect to have a Faux News type channel there too, no doubt: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/online/murdoch-jr-vs-the-man-from-auntie-sparks-fly-over-bbc-online-1779380.html">Murdoch Jr vs the man from Auntie: Sparks fly over BBC online

[Cha]

1. Fuck you Murdock..you fucking old evil

asshole ,dinosaur.

[dipsydoodle]

2. For the general benefit of anyone who didn't know

The BBC is required by its charter to be free from both political and commercial influence and to answer only to its viewers and listeners. It is a public corporation : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC

Mewdock can go fuck himself.

[vinylsolution]

3. If the Tories mess with the BBC....

... they'll have a very angry population on their backs.

Murdoch has been slagging off the Beeb for decades, and this is only his latest outburst of noise and bluster.

Luckily the Brits are well-educated, and they know what Murdoch is up to.

"A threat to independent journalism" indeed. What a load of bollocks.

[DCKit]

4. They had the nerve to use the term "Journalism" to describe what they do? Sheesh. n/t

[Hutzpa]

5. Why the hell did they give THIS muthafucka

a platform???? Why????

[AsahinaKimi]

6. They mentioned a law in the UK

So that Murdock's TV media can not do what FOX news does in the United States. I think its time we adopted that law.. MAKE News.. news again, and not a propaganda campaign.