Murdoch attack on 'dominant' BBC
Found on BBC News on Friday, 28 August 2009
News Corporation's James Murdoch has said that a "dominant" BBC threatens independent journalism in the UK.
Organisations like the BBC, funded by the licence fee, as well as Channel 4 and Ofcom, made it harder for other broadcasters to survive, he argued.
Mr Murdoch said free news on the web provided by the BBC made it "incredibly difficult" for private news organisations to ask people to pay for their news.
News Corporation has said it will start charging online customers for news content across all its websites.
Murdoch can switch to membership newsites whenever he wants to, no problem. I sure won't pay a single cent to get any "news" from him. Especially since the source for news is not the traditional journalism anymore; today, people all over the world contribute news faster than any multi-billion corporation could. Just take the rigged elections in Iran as an example; the people living there alerted the world and provided images and videos. And when you have a large number of independant sources telling the same, it's possibly true and unbiased, unlike news from a single source (Fox anyone?).