Why does rupert murdoch hate the bbc

Log In. Contact us Sign up for newsletters. Log In Register now My account. Can it survive? July 7, am Updated July 13, pm. Your guide to what to watch next - no spoilers, we promise Email address is invalid Thank you for subscribing! Sorry, there was a problem. Some have suggested it was suicide and that he deliberately threw himself over the side because he knew of the coming financial scandal.

Others have suggested he fell overboard after having a heart attack and there were even claims he could have been murdered after claims he was linked to Israeli intelligence - links he had denied.

His dream of beating the Sun came to nothing and instead of turning Mirror readers into millionaires he left thousands of employees fearing they wouldn't have a pension.

Alastair Campbell, who worked as a political correspondent on the Daily Mirror recalled: "At the time he was a kind of enormous character not just in newspapers but weirdly part of national life as well So could it happen again? I am sure it could. The strange allure of Robert Maxwell. Robert Maxwell was pipped at the post by Rupert Murdoch in the takeover of the News of the World in Battling the Sun.

So he thought he could handle Maxwell. Win a million. Robert Maxwell fell to his death from his private yacht the Lady Ghislaine. Published 4 May Julian Petley does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

Ever since Rupert Murdoch decided to enter the television game in the early s, his newspapers have waged continuous war on public service broadcasters, and on the BBC in particular. These he sees purely as rivals in the broadcasting marketplace, and when Murdoch spots rivals his instinct is to exterminate them — witness, for example, the predatory pricing by Murdoch of his newspaper titles by means of which he attempted to throttle the Independent in the early s.

The corporation is a broadcaster, not a publisher. It cannot expect a renewed charter to endorse a status quo that lets it trample on private sector rivals with public funds. Technology has allowed the BBC to expand as if on steroids. It is going to be an online paper probably. There are those sorts of issues we need to look at very carefully.