Incredible scenes in the press this morning, as The Guardian reports that Lord Mandelson has unleashed a scathing attack on Rupert Murdoch's 'news empire'.
Claiming it holds an unbridled "iron grip" over subscription television, and warning of the threat of potential right-wing news imports, Mandelson is clearly reacting to last week's revelation that Murdoch's News Corp. will be backing the Conservatives in next year's general election.
Mandelson maintains that, "There are some in the commercial sector who believe that the future of British media would be served by cutting back the role of the media regulator. They take this view because they want to commandeer more space and income for themselves and because they want to maintain their iron grip on pay-TV, a market in which many viewers feel they are paying more than they should for their music and sport. They also want to erode the commitment to impartiality. In other words, to fill British airwaves with more Fox-style news."
The last statement refers to the Conservatives' plan to dismantle Ofcom once in power and, arguably, with Britain's sole media regulator out of the way, Cameron and his money-loving, right-wing idiot friends will be free to do what they like with British television, probably utterly ruining it and making a shitload of money out of it in the process.
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