Seemingly the aging media tyrant thinks that the BBC is stealing content from his newspapers.
“And anyway," said the angry old coot, "if you look at them, most of their stuff is stolen from the newspapers now, and we’ll be suing them for copyright,
“They will have to spend a lot more money on a lot more reporters to cover the world when they can’t steal from newspapers.”
Hate to break it to you Rupert, me old china, but everyone steals content - even your brilliant newspapers.
The newswires; Reuters, AP, they are, if we're really honest, where the majority of news comes from. Be it news in your papers or on the BBC. The difference is, the BBC will report it without bias or prejudice - just the facts, whereas, Newcorp's newspapers will apply whatever spin best suits that particular paper's political allegiances.
Par example: This ridiculous Gordon Brown letter debacle. The Sun goads a poor grieving mother into a rant and then covers it as: What A Disgrace: Gordon Brown can't even be arsed to spell properly in handwritten letter to the mother of a dead solider. What an uncaring loathable bastard!
When in actuality he hadn't spelt the soldiers name wrong, it was just his poor handwriting - because, he does only have on eye and other only operates at about 30%.
And, in my humble opinion, I think for our Prime Minister to take time out of his day, you know running the country, to send a hand-written letter shows that actually he genuinely appreciates the sacrifice made. It's not like anyone knew beforehand that he did it. It wasn't a contrived publicity stunt gone wrong - he sends a hand written letter to the family of every dead solider. To me that seems an incredibly decent thing to do.
And if that's the kind of thing that you call "news" Mr Murdoch, quite frankly you can shove it up your saggy aging Australian arsehole.
