Branson v Murdoch fight

[Hart-floot]

My hearts with Branson but my head tells me that b*s***d Murdoch will win this one

Curiously there was nothing in The Times today!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/mai...22/cnitv22.xml

Sir Richard Branson, the Virgin founder, has called for an all-party review of Rupert Murdoch's media empire, claiming it should be broken up to preserve democracy in Britain.


Virgin founder Sir Richard Branson insists that Murdoch's
media empire has dominated the UK media for far too long
In his second attack since the Murdoch-controlled BSkyB swooped on ITV, paying £940m for a 17.9pc blocking stake, Sir Richard said: "All of us know governments are scared stiff of Murdoch. If The Sun, The Sunday Times, The Times, Sky, The News of the World, just to name a few of the things that Murdoch owns, all come out in favour of a particular political party, the election is likely to be won by that particular party.

[BoredBloke]

They were talking about this on radio 5 yesterday in their money hour bit - I was up early to drive down south.

What Branson was trying to do was get ITV on the cheap and Murdoch stole in there. Murdoch has played by the rules and Branson has been made to look a bit stupid my them. With Branson, as soon as he plays with the big boys he loses and then cries to the regulators about a lack of competition as he did with BA. I don't particularly like Murdoch, but on this occasion I'm quite happy to see the bearded self pulicising twat come a cropper.

[AtW]

The only party that would really like to do that is Lib Dems, the only reason why is because they know they will never get elected, so they have nothing to lose - the other main parties however can possibly be elected and such elections in many respects depend on Murdock, so why would they want to **** with him?

I think his influence on elections is overated anyway - the old man is smart enough to back the horse that will win anyway.

[Bagpuss]

They were talking about this on radio 5 yesterday in their money hour bit - I was up early to drive down south.

What Branson was trying to do was get ITV on the cheap and Murdoch stole in there. Murdoch has played by the rules and Branson has been made to look a bit stupid my them. With Branson, as soon as he plays with the big boys he loses and then cries to the regulators about a lack of competition. I don't particularly like Murdoch, but on this occasion I'm quite happy to see the bearded self pulicising twat come a cropper.

Are you happy that one man who has the power to effectively decide who is Prime Minister (in a country that he pays no tax) wants even more power to brainwash?

[DimPrawn]

Are you happy that one man who has the power to effectively decide who is Prime Minister (in a country that he pays no tax) wants even more power to brainwash?

Are we talking about Threaded?

[Hart-floot]

I think his influence on elections is overated anyway - the old man is smart enough to back the horse that will win anyway.

True, is that why he's back Gordon Brown right now then?

[AtW]

Branson may be a tw@t, but at least he invests in cool stuff like space ships - he sure is not a corporate **ck like most of top execs in the world.

[Lucy]

Branson may be a tw@t, but at least he invests in cool stuff like space ships - he sure is not a corporate **ck like most of top execs in the world.

Space ships and big watches.

[Bagpuss]

Never trust a man with a beard

[AtW]

big watches.

When did he buy the Big Ben?