Rupert Murdoch (Reuters / Lucas Jackson) Warnings from Britain's 'golden age'In 1994 one of Britain's greatest television playwrights, Dennis Potter, dying of terminal cancer, announced during his final TV interview that he had named his cancer 'Rupert'. How prescient. The very name 'Murdoch' now embodies a race to the bottom of dumbed down, vested interest mainstream media. Murdoch programs are nothing more than the filler in between the precious advertisements.
From the 1950s to the 1980s, Britain's ITV networks produced some of the best documentaries and drama in the world, priding themselves in taking on the establishment in a way the BBC wouldn't dare. One of those companies, HTV, had the franchises for Wales and the West of England, producing award winning children's and historical drama as well as some of the most innovative science fiction in the country.
I got a lift with former HTV chairman, Louis Sherwood, before he passed away in 2009, and began to share my concerns about Rupert Murdoch's establishment bias which was appearing on his Sky TV. I had never seen the erudite gentleman explode with such fury before as he yelled, 'Don't mention his name in my car. That man is poison.'
Were he alive today, it would cheer Louis to see Brooks and Coulson being finally hauled across the coals. As a genuine broadcasting philanthropist, he knew exactly what damage their nerve gas was doing to the spinal cord of the nation.
But he would not have been content until the full force of the law were brought to bear on Rupert Murdoch's kith and kin, until they were found not to be 'fit and proper people' to broadcast under section 3(3) of the Broadcasting Acts 1990 and 1996 - Until the over-mighty, sarin-breathing, kingmaker dynasty was banished forever from our airwaves.
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