Media Ownership Homework: Week 1

Rupert Murdoch mind-map: text2mindmap.com/LnvzhLB

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a. Some of the points Murdoch makes include:

• State-sponsored journalism like the BBC are becoming a threat to smaller, independent news providers
• The scope of the BBC's activities and ambitions was "chilling" and threatened to wipe out smaller businesses
• Organisations like the BBC, funded by the licence fee, as well as Channel 4 and Ofcom, made it harder for other broadcasters to survive
• He also added that as other news provisions may fall, the BBC's income will continue to be guaranteed and growing

b. In my opinion, I think that the BBC's power is a huge contrast to smaller news businesses within some reason. I do feel as though they have a little too much power due to the fact of them slowly wiping out other news provisions. In terms of the licence fee in which funds the BBC, it primarily benefits the BBC itself as it is what makes up their profit. A lot of people would argue that we should have to pay for our viewing through the monthly licence fee. However in my opinion, the television licence fee is unfair and should be replaced with a voluntary subscription service for certain programming so that you pay for what you want to watch and are not paying for unnecessary, unwatched channels.