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> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>> ____/ Mark Kent on Thursday 31 Dec 2009 21:28 : \____
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>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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>>>> Experts: Comcast's Acquisition of NBC May End Free TV
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>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Increasingly, media moguls, national
>>>>| journalists and Wall Street experts are
>>>>| predicting that cable provider Comcast's
>>>>| acquisition of NBC will lead to the end of free
>>>>| broadcast television. Numerous outlets have
>>>>| reported that Rupert Murdoch, founder of Fox
>>>>| News Channel's parent company NewsCorp, is
>>>>| actively pushing to end the long-time
>>>>| television business model where advertising
>>>>| dollars pay for programming.
>>>> `----
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>>>> http://www.prwatch.org/node/8798
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>>> Murdoch has also been attacking the BBC in the same way recently,
>>> indicating that the licence-fee should be split across multiple
>>> broadcasters, and that the BBC's remit should be reduced, in order, of
>>> course, for Murdoch to make more money. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the BBC
>>> stopping Mr Murdoch from lining his pockets with additional cash has
>>> been referred to as "communist". Some clues, perhaps, as to the
>>> play-book in use.
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>> Yes, El Reg took the piss out of him on Wednesday:
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>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/30/quotes_of_the_year/
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>> âEverybody loves the BBC and it doesn't cost anything, Murdoch should learn a
>> thing or twoâ
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>> You've gotta see the photo.
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> Excellent!
>
> I'm a little surprised that as we're approaching an election, saving the
> BBC from Murdoch hasn't been picked up by any of the major parties. In
> fact, whilst they're at it, they could save the British Library and the
> National Archives from Microsoft, too. Oh yeah, and cease the ID card
> idiocy and stop the Mckinnon case, and throw out that awful piece of
> legislation, which was rushed in and is, guess what, being abused by the
> US.
>
> I think it's time our extradition laws were changed so that we do not
> extradite anyone to any country which uses the death penalty. It might
> force a little social change.
The ID cards made their dÃbut here. Almost nobody came, except a journalist.
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