Culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has given the go-ahead to the takeover which means Murdoch's belief systems will not only continue to be pumped into every living room in the UK but it will do so increasingly.
What is the small price News Corporation has to pay? Sky News which will be sold for around £20million pounds. An insider at Sky informed me that Sky News makes chicken change in comparison to other sources of revenue for the company. By letting go of Sky News, Murdoch plays a card to show that so much so does he have the upperhand in other arenas, that he is willing for consumer-popular Sky News to be run by an independent organisation - therefore reducing bias.
What is the hoorah about Murdoch's take over? Well arguably this could decrease plurality. I.e. Potentially, everything we watch will have some sort of Murdochonian ethos behind it. But is that such a bad thing? Shouldn't we believe in the free market?
It's debatable.
After all, if Rupert Murdoch is to have such a grip on the media, BBC stand (relatively) firm against any form of propaganda. Being government owned, the BBC is supposed to be free from bias. Don't they?
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