One trusts that the increasing improbability of Rupert Murdoch's acquisition of the rest of BSkyB will not obstruct the creation of a separate company for Sky News, with Independent National Directors.
Vince Cable would be ideal as the new Chairman of Sky News, appointed by the Secretary of State with the approval of the relevant Select Committee. The other Independent National Directors should be elected by and from among Sky subscribers, each of whom would vote for one candidate, with the requisite number elected at the end.
And cross-subsidy being what it is (although even if it were not), they could very usefully double up as the, hitherto somewhat ineffective, Independent National Directors of The Times and the Sunday Times.
This should happen regardless of whether or not Murdoch was even so much as still at liberty in this country.
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You posh boys are loving this aren't you? You have scented blood, you are going to get your media monopoly back.
ReplyDeleteThe Times, Sunday Times and Sky News put under the control of some glorified quango of Old Labour, Tory toff, Lib Dem, BBC and Fleet Street grandees. The News of the World driven out of business taking the Sun with it. The Mirror restored to what you think was its pre-Sun heyday because there would be no popular/populist competition.
In fact, why so coy? Why not say eight independent national directors, one each appointed by the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Independent, the Mail (posh columnists not tabloid news reporters), the BBC, the Tory peers, the Labour peers and the Lib Dem peers. All chaired by a member of the Royal Family, preferably Charles. You would love that wouldn't you? You and your kind would fucking love it.
Please do not swear on my blog.
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