I see that James Murdoch, son of the ageing Rupert, has inveighed against the BBC's 'dominance' of the media scene in the UK. You can be sure that whenever the politicians or the media barons speak out against the Corporation that it is doing something well. Murdoch describes the BBC's 'dominance' as "chilling".
Of course, the real story is that in the present recession, newspapers are suffering from the decline in advertising revenue and see the advertising-free BBC TV and radio as a desirable target for a takeover and conversion to the obscene aims of commercialism. Murdoch, father and son, pander to the lowest audience tastes, delivering dumbed-down output through their world empire. They also want to begin charging for their Web content - a vain hope for most of the trash they delivesr - and see the BBC's Website as an obstacle to this aim. Hence the invective - a copycat of Rupert Murdoch's speech on the same theme at the same venue in 1989.
So James finds the BBC chilling, eh? Well, James, how chilling do you imagine everyone else finds this list of News Corporation's holdings:
In the UK:
The Times
The Sunday Times
The Sun
News of the World
Times Literary Supplement
Times Education Supplement
Times Higher Education Supplement
Page 3.com
In the USA:
20th Century Fox
20th Century Fox Espanol
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
20th Century Fox International
20th Century Fox Television
Fox Searchlight Pictures
Fox Studios Australia
Fox Studios LA
Fox Television Studios
Blue Sky Studios
FOX Broadcasting Company
FOX Sports Australia
FOX Television Stations
FOXTEL
MyNetwork
TV
STAR
FOX Business Network
Fox Movie Channel
FOX News Channel
FOX College Sports
FOX Sports Enterprises
FOX Sports En Espanol
FOX Sports Net
FOX Soccer Channel
Fox Reality Channel
Fuel TV
FX
National Geographic Channel
United States National Geographic Channel
Worldwide
Speed
Stats, Inc.
BSkyB
Sky Italia
Big League
Inside Out
donna hay
ALPHA
News
America Marketing
Smart Source
The Weekly Standard
New York Post
The Wall Street Journal
Dow Jones
And in Australasia
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Fiji Times
Gold Coast Bulletin
Herald Sun
Newsphotos
Newspix
Newstext
NT
News
Post-Courier
Sunday Herald
Sun
Sunday Mail
Sunday Tasmanian
Sunday Territorian
Sunday Times
The Advertiser
The Australian
The Courier-Mail
The Mercury
The Sunday Mail
The Sunday Telegraph
Weekly Times
Plus:
HarperCollins Publishers
Zondervan
AmericanIdol.com
AskMen
Broadsystem
Beliefnet
careerone.com.au
CARSguide.com.au
Fox.com
Fox Interactive Media
FoxSports.com
FoxSports.com.au
hulu.com
IGN Entertainment
kSolo
Milkround
MySpace
National Rugby League
NDS
News.com.au
News Digital Media
News Outdoor
Rotten Tomatoes
Scout
Spring Widgets
truelocal.com.au
WhatIfSports
James pretends to be worried about competition in the industry - how about getting your Dad to divest himself of some of this lot and stop buying up every media company he can get his hands on?
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