Vince Cable, David Cameron and Rupert Murdoch


See, I'm not entirely convinced its hypocrisy. We can all disagree, have a good bitch and so on with certain policies while still broadly approving of them as being the best acceptable compromise option.
 
Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has taken over the role of ruling over the BSkyB case.

BBC: Hunt has been described as a "cheerleader" for Mr Murdoch and once said that Murdoch "has probably done more to create variety and choice in British TV than any other single person".

Perfect.

Is there really any point to Cable now? Perhaps he should stick to Strictly Come Dancing for a full-time job.

Coalition, what a joke.
 
Yamahahahahaha said:
This is what honesty gets you in politics.

Why can't Murdoch and his entire family just die in a plane crash or something?

Then it truly would be a Merry Christmas. :)
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Although Cable may have been honest, his bias was not acceptable.

As for Murdoch and his newspaper and TV empire, no one is forced to buy anything from him, there are plenty of alternatives.

I do not think this has anything to do with the Government at all, it is a deal between two private entities.
 
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So anyway, while checking reuters yesterday, buried in with the Norway tragedy was this: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2011/07/22/uk-newscorp-lewis-idUKTRE76L30S20110722

A leading private investigations firm said it had strong reason to suspect that Will Lewis, a senior executive of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, was involved in "orchestrating" a leak of material from a competing news organisation which helped Murdoch's business interests.

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The investigation firm says in a report, prepared for the Telegraph last March, that it could not categorically identify the source of the leak. One main reason for this, Kroll said, was that the Telegraph Media Group's information security systems were too porous and too many people had access to the relevant systems for the leaker to be pinpointed.

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"We have established that on 9 December, the circle of knowledge of an impending 'big story' by the same team who broke (a major political story about British parliamentary expenses) extended to ... a former Telegraph employee now employed by News International ... (who) works closely at News International with the former Telegraph editor Will Lewis, both of whom have strong motivations to damage the Telegraph," Kroll's report says.

"In the period between 9 and 21 December there was extensive telephone, text and social contact between (the former Telegraph employee), Lewis, and individuals within the authorized circle of knowledge," the report continues. The private investigators say they "believe it is more than likely that their knowledge of the big story grew. News International was the only media organisation we identified as having extensive contacts with the authorized circle of knowledge during this period."

"Given their employment with News International, their antipathy towards the Telegraph, and their knowledge of the story, we have a strong suspicion that (the other former Telegraph employee) and Lewis were involved in orchestrating the leak of the information," Kroll's investigators said.
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I realise its a moot point now, but still.

Circles in circles, greasy politicians, reprehensible journalists and the british public continue to bend over and take it up the rear.
 
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Dolph said:
It's not, I don't like the way Murdoch is slowly monopolising the media, although I'm unsure what steps should be taken to stop it, given that it's being done through simply selling more papers/tv packages than anyone else...
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Inject competition?

Isn't that the latest? How would you inject competition here?

Dolph said:
The problem is that some people are so rabidly anti-murdoch they come out with such drivel that any valid criticisms of the murdoch empire are lost in the shuffle...
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Absolutely, but they shouldn't be allowed to cloud valid concerns, or become so distracting that it's a straw man for everybody...
 
Telescopi said:
There is only one person in this who has been shown to have a personal bias - and he's a lib dem.

As far as I know the regulators have no problem with the deal, the EU has no problem with the deal. The fact is murdoch runs it anyway so what difference does it make?
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Hang on, after Cable thoroughly embarrassed himself, Cameron gave the job to Hunt, a guy who is publicly pro-Murdoch.

http://www.politics.co.uk/news/2011/07/22/cameron-faces-question-over-bskyb-deal-after-

Edit: Oh great thanks bunnykillbot. Welcome to 7 months ago.
 
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Rupert Murdoch's News International launched a campaign of bullying against senior Liberal Democrats in an attempt to force through the company's bid for BSkyB, high-level sources have told the Observer.

Lib Dem insiders say NI officials took their lobbying campaign well beyond acceptable limits and even threatened, last autumn, to persecute the party if Vince Cable, the business secretary, did not advance its case.

According to one account from a senior party figure, a cabinet minister was told that, if the government did not do as NI wanted, the Lib Dems would be "done over" by the Murdoch papers, which included the now defunct News of the World as well as the Sun, the Times and the Sunday Times. (The Grauniad)
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A great many people owe Vince Cable a humble policy - including many Tory FanBoyz here.


People at the Torygraph must be kicking themselves for their unwitting and witless support of Murdoch :D
 
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