Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, 2024 parliamentary candidate for North Durham, 2028 candidate for Mayor of the North East Mayoral Combined Authority, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", banned from Twitter so officially more dangerous than the Taliban, eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Wednesday 26 November 2008
No BBC Local After All
In all the fuss over the decision to let Jonathan Ross off the hook, I suspect that most people will have missed the rather better decision that, very untrue to form, the BBC is going to allow an alternative source of news (local newspapers, read by something like eighty per cent of people at least once per week) to remain in existence. How very generous of you, Auntie...
But would you prefer a local newspaper market dominated by papers run under the auspices of the Daily Mail and General Trust? I think not.
ReplyDeleteI'd much prefer to have Auntie to Lord Rothermere!
Why? You don't have to buy a Rothermore newspaper if you don't wnat to. This was a scheme to undercut out of existence a successful, indeed thriving, entire sector. At public expense!
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