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Anyone else disgusted by the attacks on Murdoch?
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Whilst we all know that the whole phone hacking issue is a disgrace, is it right to publicly bash Murdoch in the way the none-murdoch press and media are?
Even the Govenment and the opposition, all of the Commons, are acting like judge, jury and executioner by demanding News Corp retract the bid for BskyB......
Yet there is no evidence yet that Murdoch/News Corp have done anything wrong......
And even if there WAS, is it the position of Government to interfere in COMMERCIAL BUSINESS?
Would they have a right to tell Mr Patel that he can't buy a corner shop, or Mrs Smith that she must retract her offer to buy Mrs Jones cake shop?
Yes BskyB is a BIG BIG business, put the principal is the same.......
And to say retracting the bid for BskyB is IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST......how? why is it?
People have Sky to watch movies, sport and tv shows......how is the ownership of a service that shows tv a matter of public and national interest.......and lets be clear here, when they say INTEREST its not because people are interested, its because they feel its of national significance, national security, national pride......
What bollocks!
Its TV!!!!!
Even the Govenment and the opposition, all of the Commons, are acting like judge, jury and executioner by demanding News Corp retract the bid for BskyB......
Yet there is no evidence yet that Murdoch/News Corp have done anything wrong......
And even if there WAS, is it the position of Government to interfere in COMMERCIAL BUSINESS?
Would they have a right to tell Mr Patel that he can't buy a corner shop, or Mrs Smith that she must retract her offer to buy Mrs Jones cake shop?
Yes BskyB is a BIG BIG business, put the principal is the same.......
And to say retracting the bid for BskyB is IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST......how? why is it?
People have Sky to watch movies, sport and tv shows......how is the ownership of a service that shows tv a matter of public and national interest.......and lets be clear here, when they say INTEREST its not because people are interested, its because they feel its of national significance, national security, national pride......
What bollocks!
Its TV!!!!!
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They have brought a lot of it on themselves that cant be denied but what we have to be careful of now is people and organisations using the fiasco for their own agenda, abusing public opinion.
Remember attack is the best form of defence and the other paper's most probably have their own skeletons well hidden (with PIs ordered/payed to destroys all lists).
I'm sure you will see unity within all the written media when the BSB merger is shelved and the words media regulation are mentioned.
Err...yes?
If News Corp believe that any decisions against them are bias, unlawful or procedures not adhered, can they go to the European courts ?
Also they would have the right to tell Mr. Patel, or Mrs. Smith not to buy a shop, if they had done something wrong.
I thought I heard sick note, sorry Cameron utter something about legality last Friday.
What about due process?
NOT THE COMMONS
So, there's no evidence at all? Anywhere? All of this is just made up??!!
The politicians say the public are disgusted by the recent revelations, hence why the MPs are all asking News Corp to withdraw its bid. Well, I don't know that the public are disgusted - more that the politicians and other media are salivating over giving Murdoch a bashing.
The public may say they are disgusted but that's just to sound principled and moral. In reality the public are probably much more cynical.
There are always ways and means, for example I know plenty pub landlords with criminal records who's spouses hold liqueur licences.
This 'fit and proper persons test' intrigues me, if other European Countries allow News Corp to own broadcasting licences, would News Corp have scope for redress in the European courts or could the UK be a lone wolf ?
You dont have a problem with a company engaged in phone hacking running a telephone company?
I don't recall that they were quite so eager to follow public opinion or rush to judgments on their colleagues when the MPs expenses scandal broke. They were quite happy to kick that one into the long grass if they could. No resigning by party leaders there because of what their MPs had done.
Not so eager either on Europe, Capital Punishment or any other area where their view and public opinion diverges.
As for most of the public their moral indignation only goes so far - for many they'll be sick of the story within days.
Funny how closing down the NOTW resulted in the best sales for years. Very principled stand by the public there...
There's plenty of evidence News International has committed many crimes, but there's no evidence Murdoch or Newscorp have committed any crime.
Tickets for the outrage bus are very, very cheap at the moment. Passengers will soon disembark and board another one though when the next "scandal" from another source hits the airwaves and the press a few weeks down the line.
Well, apart from all that evidence.
If Mr Patel or Mrs Smith had a history of trangressing the law in respect of their business, then legally they could be stopped from doing so. Government interferes in commercial business all the time. It's called regulation.
But the NofW does seem to have gone through a period of widespread hacking and blagging.
I have never liked Murdoch because of the amount of influence he has and the reports of the way his company obstructed the police investigation only reinforce those beliefs.
Certain employees contracted a private investigator to perform unauthorised entries on peoples voice mail. Not quite what you are saying to be honest.
I think many other people think the same as this as well.
It would depend on if he went to prison with a previous history of selling poisened loaves.