Many questions to answer.

[anotheoldgit]

Well what a week, we have seen the last edition of the News of the World published.

Various persons and publications apologising.

Arrests and questioning by the police etc, etc, etc.

Where will it all end?

Will anyone be questioning the police, will anyone be sent to jail, what will come out of the two inquiries?

Will other newspapers fall?

And finally will the 'Left' finally get their main aim fulfilled and that is the breaking down of Rupert Murdoch's dominance of the media?

[jno]

I don't see why anyone should dominate British media, be they left or right. It's dangerous. Look at the way Berlusconi controls things in Italy.

[andy-hughes]

I fail to see why the fears over Murdoch's monopoly of a nation's media should be the exclusive preserve of 'the left'.

I am not left-wing, but I share with many, of all political and social pursuasions, a wish for Murdoch's grip to be broken, it is not good for the wider society.

[anotheoldgit]

jno yes agreed but Murdoch doesn't dominate the whole of the media, only that part that the 'Left' rather he didn't.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

Please tell me how has Murdoch's 'Empire' had any effect on you personally?

[andy-hughes]

The control of a large swathe of international media must affect the impartiality with which news is delievered to the wider world.

Murdoch makes no secret of his 'hands on' approach to the delivery of news through his outlets, so his decisions on the style and editorial content of the news I receive from those outlets has a direct effect on my perception of the events in the world around me, as they are reported.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-break-UK-empire.html

/// Miliband said: 'I think that we've got to look at the situation whereby one person can own more than 20 per cent of the newspaper market, the Sky platform and Sky News.///

More than 20% of the newspaper market eh? that means some others own the other 80%.

The Sky platform? There is always Terrestrial and Cable.

Sky News? The choice is yours there is always the BBC News, The ITV News, Channel 4 & 5 News to name a few.

[anotheoldgit]

/// and editorial content of the news I receive from those outlets has a direct effect on my perception of the events in the world around me, as they are reported. ///

So you don't believe that the BBC has a particular 'Left' slant on things?

But the choice is yours, you're free to gather your news from other sources just as you are free to read the newspapers of your choice.

[jno]

Murdoch had control of about 40% of the UK newspaper market before the NotW closed, I believe. (Can't find a link to substantiate this.) That is definitely dominating. Plus 39% of Sky, which would now be 100% if all this hadn't blown up. Plus, it seems, quite a few coppers in his pocket.

[jno]

as for the BBC's bias, would that have anything to do with their political editor, Nick Robinson, aka Blue Robbo, former president of the Oxford University Conservative Association?

[craft1948]

Isn't Robert Peston, the BBC news editor a regular at the Murdoch soirees?