http://uk.news.yahoo.com/miliband-calls-limits-media-ownership-065146702--finance.html
On the basis that he's unelectable anyway, have they decided to use him as a mouthpiece for anti Murdoch stuff? Could make for an interesting vote in parliment seeing as if it didn't pass then anyone who voted against it would presumably get good coverage in the sun and therefore re-elected.
Bit of a mexican stand-off looming?
Even discounting the whole Levison debacle, and News Internationals standing never having been lower. the days of 'It Was the Sun Wot Won It' are well and truly over.
Newspaper sales are in terminal decline, and people are consuming news in a totally different manner. So making statements like this is now deemed safe
One of his spin doctors has probably told him that, having painfully analysed the results of 67 different regional focus groups
Newspaper sales are in terminal decline, and people are consuming news in a totally different manner
Yes, but Times readers probably switched to the Times app. Sun readers to the sun online. The news still exists and what the papers chose to cover/ignore will still affect what people hear about, and once they've heard about it they'll go online etc.
Is he still alive!!
2 years and 1 policy!!
I'd like to see any evidence that people are going to pay for any of Murdochs paid-for online services. The future of the media is one of increasing fragmentation. People will increasingly desert mainstream news sources. Everyone in the media knows this
Why do you think he wanted to buy all of BSkyB? He knows thats where the money is - well... more so than Newspapers .... and had visions of the Tories nodding through legislation to set up some populist Fox News style crapfest for the former Sun reading proles
Newspaper sales are in terminal decline, and people are consuming news in a totally different manner. So making statements like this is now deemed safe
Tell that to the Daily Mail...
Its not really the point. The Mail/Telegraph/Express/Channel 4/BBC have all been ranged against news international in a frankly weird alliance.
The point is that there's no way on earth that that spineless numpty has suddenly grown a pair, and decided to 'take on the power of the Murdoch's'. Not a chance of him sticking his gormless toothy head above the parapet, unless endless focus groups etc have told him its now 'safe' to do so. Take a stand? As a 'matter of principle? Don't make me laugh. He's about 5 years too late for that, I'm afraid.
The devastatingly sad thing about it is that he's too stupid to see that. Opportunism. Pure and simple. Worse still - Opportunism, once its been cleared by some policy unit at central office. Utterly utterly pathetic
I think most news papers are doomed. Few are buying printed ones, even fewer will pay to download them. Sat at your desk with free ones online why pay ?
Readers of things like the Sun may not even have a computer and few will pay to download onto a phone.
Look at pron - now its free online who buys it, no one. Same for anything really. News is news, so free news will fill the gap left by paid for news.
We will have a race to the bottom as less income for news means less real news and more celeb gossip, sadly.