We haven't even finished figuring out how Murdoch's News of the World,
News of the Screws, to you and me,
managed to hack into the phones of
certain government people and famous people.
Now, we're faced with him taking over
Sky Tv.
he already owns 4 newspapers over here,
manipulates the news that's fit to print,
manipulates the government.
how else could such a monopolist have convinced
the British government to let him do Sky?
Vince Cable wanted to stop this happening,
so a Conservative spy recorded him saying
that he was in favour of "all-out war",
so he lost oversight of media, and it was
given to a sycophantic lackey.
managed to hack into the phones of
certain government people and famous people.
Now, we're faced with him taking over
Sky Tv.
he already owns 4 newspapers over here,
manipulates the news that's fit to print,
manipulates the government.
how else could such a monopolist have convinced
the British government to let him do Sky?
Vince Cable wanted to stop this happening,
so a Conservative spy recorded him saying
that he was in favour of "all-out war",
so he lost oversight of media, and it was
given to a sycophantic lackey.
It doesn't even matter that they're taking over Sky TV, they barely do news anyway,
and if they did, they couldn't be much worse than the BBC. It doesn't matter. The Sheeple are expendable anyway. It's the government-baiting that bothers me.
Cos67 ¬(%^D>
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The BSkyB decision may lead to a rethink on monopoly powerThe establishment may cast monopolies as a matter for technocrats, but Cable's gaffe showed they are a political issue
o David Boyle
o guardian.co.uk, Friday 4 March 2011 17.36 GMT
Jeremy Hunt's ticklish decision that he is "minded" to allow the Murdoch empire to take over BSkyB may turn out to be one of those great symbolic moments – important way beyond its immediate implications.
It already seems an age since Hunt took over responsibility for the decision from Vince Cable, so the political element of this seems less urgent. But the politics is important, because it marks an unexpected divide between the coalition partners – not about Murdoch, but about what is good for business.
Conservatives may regard this kind of decision as good for business; Lib Dems – at least a generation or more ago – would have regarded it as bad for business, because it kowtows to monopoly power.
Cable's comments to an undercover reporter caused such a storm precisely because he made it look as through the impending decision was a political one.
It shocked the political establishment because it cast doubt on the accepted approach to tackling monopoly that we have come to accept: it is an arms-length, technocratic business to be carried out by trained economists in white coats. It is emphatically not political. Heaven forfend.
The reason the BSkyB decision may be the very tail end of this approach is because actually Cable was right. Monopoly is a political issue, whether the establishment likes it or not, and – when it isn't treated as such – it gets to be a problem. It just doesn't work....
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Vince Cable's idiocy leaves Britain at Murdoch's mercy
A newspaper sting and Vince Cable's hubris have handed the owner of the Sun yet more power
Comments (197)
o Henry Porter
o The Observer, Sunday 26 December 2010
[the only guy who can't see the conspiracy is this fella- Cos67]
The classic Chinese text, The Art of War, always has something to say about Rupert Murdoch's activities, so much so that you wonder if the Sun king is actually channelling the wisdom of Sun Tzu, specifically the advice that a commander is more likely to gain victory by watching for the enemy's weakness than through his own strength.
This is what Sun Tzu says: "The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Two short-lived Murdoch challengers – Robert Maxwell and Conrad Black – demonstrate the point. Through their own actions, one ended up a broken suicide and the other a jailbird. Last week, two of Murdoch's fiercest commercial and political foes – the Daily Telegraph and Vince Cable – unwittingly combined to hand him the perfect seasonal gift – the merger of BSkyB and News International, which, after so much opposition, now seems certain to go through. What is so beautiful for the Murdoch family is that neither Rupert nor son James moved a muscle to annihilate the business secretary or the numbskulls in charge of strategy at the Daily Telegraph.Murdoch's enemies simply behaved as themselves, guided by innate weaknesses – in Cable's case an unworldly hubris and in the Telegraph's an addiction to political assassination.
Vince Cable's idiocy leaves Britain at Murdoch's mercy
A newspaper sting and Vince Cable's hubris have handed the owner of the Sun yet more power
Comments (197)
o Henry Porter
o The Observer, Sunday 26 December 2010
[the only guy who can't see the conspiracy is this fella- Cos67]
The classic Chinese text, The Art of War, always has something to say about Rupert Murdoch's activities, so much so that you wonder if the Sun king is actually channelling the wisdom of Sun Tzu, specifically the advice that a commander is more likely to gain victory by watching for the enemy's weakness than through his own strength.
This is what Sun Tzu says: "The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself."
Two short-lived Murdoch challengers – Robert Maxwell and Conrad Black – demonstrate the point. Through their own actions, one ended up a broken suicide and the other a jailbird. Last week, two of Murdoch's fiercest commercial and political foes – the Daily Telegraph and Vince Cable – unwittingly combined to hand him the perfect seasonal gift – the merger of BSkyB and News International, which, after so much opposition, now seems certain to go through. What is so beautiful for the Murdoch family is that neither Rupert nor son James moved a muscle to annihilate the business secretary or the numbskulls in charge of strategy at the Daily Telegraph.Murdoch's enemies simply behaved as themselves, guided by innate weaknesses – in Cable's case an unworldly hubris and in the Telegraph's an addiction to political assassination.
