Businessman and Australian Public Broadcaster CEO Mark Scott has delivered on his promise to give Rupert Jnr a stern talking to in his Australia House speech to the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association.
Scott suggested that Murdoch's antipathy to the BBC resembled the attitude of his grandfather, Sir Keith Murdoch, an Australian press baron who objected to plans for an ABC news service in the 1930s.
via James Murdoch out to ‘destroy the BBC’, says ABC head | Media | guardian.co.uk.
Given his position, Mark would find it difficult not to criticise James Murdoch since by logical extension Jimmy’s little dummy spit can also be applied to the ABC, a point Mark was obviously aware of when he said
“The need for public broadcasting in the digital age is growing, not diminishing…At the ABC, we are confident that our best days lie head of us.”
via ABC chief blasts Murdoch on BBC.
