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Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
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Re: Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
I beg to differ on that score. Any implication that Murdoch may have any superiority to anything, let alone that most intriguing of genitals, the cunt, is deplorable!klr wrote:Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Murdoch > cunt
Murdoch < cunt - perhaps. Murdoch < syphilitic, octogenarian, sewn-up, dried-out, necrotic cunt - better!
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Re: Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
That pretty much sums it up for me.klr wrote:The output of the likes of Sky and ITV is more than enough evidence that purely profit-driven TV tends to gravitate towards the lowest common denominator. They provide some of the best evidence against unfettered market-based TV. I don't buy the argument that they can't compete against the BBC when it comes to commissioning high quality documentaries (for example). Sky Sports makes an obscene amount of profit: Why can't some of that be ploughed back into educational broadcasting? We all know the answer why ...
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Re: Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
I'm sensing a dislike.Xamonas Chegwé wrote:I beg to differ on that score. Any implication that Murdoch may have any superiority to anything, let alone that most intriguing of genitals, the cunt, is deplorable!klr wrote:Xamonas Chegwé wrote:Murdoch > cunt
Murdoch < cunt - perhaps. Murdoch < syphilitic, octogenarian, sewn-up, dried-out, necrotic cunt - better!
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Re: Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
Hah, one of the mouthpieces of the Murdoch empire complaining, because someone's in the way of their plans to achieve total media hegemony in the UK? Oh look at me, I'm weeping .... not.
We've seen what happens when the Murdoch empire gets to work. The Times newspaper was one of the most respected of its ilk before Murdoch bought it. Now, it's a shadow of what it used to be in terms of proper, critical journalism. As for The Sun, well the only reason anyone's bought that for years is for the half-naked model on Page 3 - no one actually reads it, mostly because it's aimed at the crayon demographic. Can you imagine what would happen if Sky didn't have the BBC to compete with? We'd have even worse television than the Americans. We'd end up with a bastardised version of Fox News that was further to the extreme right than Genghis Khan, and which aimed its blatant propaganda not so much at the lowest common denominator, but at the slime moulds growing in the gutters, and even the slime moulds would barf at having to watch it.
We've seen what happens when the Murdoch empire gets to work. The Times newspaper was one of the most respected of its ilk before Murdoch bought it. Now, it's a shadow of what it used to be in terms of proper, critical journalism. As for The Sun, well the only reason anyone's bought that for years is for the half-naked model on Page 3 - no one actually reads it, mostly because it's aimed at the crayon demographic. Can you imagine what would happen if Sky didn't have the BBC to compete with? We'd have even worse television than the Americans. We'd end up with a bastardised version of Fox News that was further to the extreme right than Genghis Khan, and which aimed its blatant propaganda not so much at the lowest common denominator, but at the slime moulds growing in the gutters, and even the slime moulds would barf at having to watch it.
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