Jonathan Miller's* argument that he/you would be outraged if your purchase of the Times meant supporting other newspapers... The Times is published by News International, and profit from well performing divisons of a large corporation is often diverted to subsidise badly performing ones. So when you pay for the Times, part of that money will eventually be used to pay for other less lucrative News Corporation products (MySpace, for example. Or more objectionably, the News of the World).
* Do you mean Jonathan Miller the ex-PR Director for Sky Television (News Corp), ex-Sunday Times (News Corp) journalist, and all around Murdoch (News Corp) lapdog?
Gareth's right, although I thought he told me he was a libertarian :p ITV, C4 etc. have no intellectual integrity whatsoever and sometimes I suspect their Cambridge toffs are nothing but voice actors of indeterminate regional origin. For shame! Seriously though, C4 documentaries are utterly dire. Leading on from that, BBC News is easily the most objective and unbiased (if not always accurate on technical issues) of any I've seen. The benefits of a well-funded, inquisitive press unconstrained by profit concerns are NOT confined to those who watch TV regularly.
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Free market television is a terrible idea, the US shows the results of such a system - a race to the lowest common denominator, a criminally misinformed population, and no drum and bass (or programming for other non-profitable minorities) anywhere to be seen.
* Do you mean Jonathan Miller the ex-PR Director for Sky Television (News Corp), ex-Sunday Times (News Corp) journalist, and all around Murdoch (News Corp) lapdog?
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