Lord Kinnock accidentally clarifies the future of press regulation (and of media ownership)
By Bagehot
LISTENING to this morning’s Currently programme on BBC Radio 4, Bagehot’s first, unworthy idea was: blimey, it is Statler and Waldorf from the Muppet Give an explanation for. As an alternative, the males shouting at and across every various grew to turn into out to be the passe Labour leader Lord (Neil) Kinnock and his fellow Welshman John Humphrys, the indefatigable radio presenter. When it is likely you’ll maybe collect past the annoyance of being unable to listen to Lord Kinnock advance his arguments half the time, it was though-provoking stuff and important too, clarifying neatly two key questions about the model forward for the British press.
These two questions are knotty ones.
First: if of us agree that Rupert Murdoch wields too grand energy by proudly owning two loss-making but respected broadsheets (the Times and Sunday Times) apart from Britain’s simplest-selling paper (the successful tabloid Solar) and a mammoth chunk of the BSkyB satellite tv for computer tv community, who, precisely, attain they have about will accumulate the cash for to toddle the Times and Sunday Times on their have, following a forced shatter-up of Info World?
