Day: 13 November 2011

In his 1989 MacTaggart lecture in Edinburgh, just a few months after launching his four Sky channels, Rupert Murdoch launched an astonishingly ignorant attack on British television journalism. Having warned about the evils of “less than independent, neutered journalism” from broadcasters which are subject to regulatory scrutiny, he then turned the real-life evidence of British broadcasting upside down: “I cannot imagine a British Watergate, or a British Irangate, being pursued by the BBC or ITV with the vigour that the US networks did.” Continue reading