Everyone, obviously. But if it weren’t Rupert Murdoch trying to purchase BSkyB would anyone care? Thought not. But since the Dirty Digger already owns 39% of Sky, what harm can it really do to let him buy the rest of a company he, more than anyone else, is responsible for making a success worth purchasing?
Our friends at the New Statesmen do not appear convinced by this. Indeed Samira Shackle is troubled by an interview Jeremy Hunt (who will now, post-Vince decide the matter) gave to Broadcast Magazine earlier this year in which he said:
Rather than worry about Rupert Murdoch owning another TV channel, what we should recognise is that he has probably done more to create variety and choice in British TV than any other single person because of his huge investment in setting up Sky TV which, at one point, was losing several million pounds a day.
What part of that is untrue? None of it.
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