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We voted WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as B3ta's Person of the Year. Who do you have as 2010's scoundrel and why?

(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 12:34)
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It was never going to happen under the Tories
How strange that a non-pro-Murdoch minister in a Tory government was forced out after a sting by a right-wing paper. Whodathunkit???
(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:06, 2 replies)
You're forgetting that the Torygraph has no love for Murdoch, though.
Yes, it happens to share a certain party-political affiliation with the Sun and Times; but it's ideologically rather different, and is, when it comes down to brass tacks, still a commercial rival.

(Also, note that Murdoch only ever has political allegiances as a matter of convenience. He supported Labour between 1997 and about 2009.)
(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:11, closed)
It's not about editorial line or commercial rivalry
It's about issues of ownership, where there might well be common ground
(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:20, closed)
Apparently the heir apparent (James Murdoch)
isn't particularly interested in print media and would prefer to concentrate on telly/new media...so yeah, encouraging him in that direction (by allowing greater ownership of BSB) would be useful for commercial rivals. Possibly.
(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:24, closed)
oooh, new conspiracy theory...
Get Assange on the case!
(, Thu 23 Dec 2010, 14:11, closed)

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