Why does it matter who owns the media? Fraser Nelson on the UAE bid for the Spectator
Vložit
- čas přidán 16. 03. 2024
- Fraser Nelson speaks to Kate Andrews in the week the government moved to block foreign powers from owning national newspapers and magazines. Is this a win for press freedom?
// SUBSCRIBE TO THE SPECTATOR
Get 12 issues for £12, plus a free £20 Amazon voucher
www.spectator.co.uk/tvoffer
// FOLLOW US
/ spectator
/ officialspectator
/ the-spectator
/ spectator1828
/ thespectatormagazine
Theme song written and performed by Jon Barker © 2020 Jonathan Stewart Barker
Publisher Jonathan Stewart Barker 100%, administered by prsformusic.com
Recording © 2020 Jonathan Stewart Barker 100%, administered by ppl.com
Some how cant see Douglas keeping is job if the UAE ever got hold of it.
So who does own the media?
It's antisemitism if we talk about it.
@@evolassunglasses4673
Don't be an ***wipe!!
We can't have Arabs owning the media right, that would be problematic because they might have alternative agendas, I mean, they might have a different perspective on things than other semitic groups that have a large stake of media control and we can't have that, can we...!
Murdoch is foreign too so are you going to boot him out too?
Hopefully!!!
You really think that's equivalent to something like China or the Saudis owning the media?
Nelson explains this about eleven minutes in to the video - it's not about foreigners, it's about any government interference with a free press.
allies don't count
Well that's why he had to take out American citizenship and I doubt he's going to revoke that for this itty bitty island. It sure would be good to get rid of his corrupt practices in the gutter press 🤞🏼 one can certainly hope
National security? What national security?
Why can’t the Spectator find a British interviewer? Are we so demoralised as a nation that we can’t even hire British journalists anymore?
Very interesting ....
Why is this newspaper so valuable ?
It has a very large library of stories, details relating to individuals, governments, corporations. Endless cross configurations.
Relationships and power struggles. Present and past.
A veritable Bletchley Park. £ 600 m is on the cheap side, I suggest.
Compare it to Balliol College Library ?
Who knows ?
The story goes way way back to William Randolph Hurst 1880's.
He built up an empire through negotiation and deals.
Rupert Murdoch built up his empire , through more negotiation and more deals.
Is it right..... non newspaper people just walk in and buy something that's taken generations to assemble ?
Should the journalists have a right to buy ?
Should they have absolute right to their treasured work ?
Because this legislation , third reading is our journalists future they are protecting.
From the .... I am trying to find a word ...from the interloper ?
Next question ...
Should all companies be open to workers ownership ?
Effectively keeping the capital less mobile ?
Free market capitalism is always good, except when it's bad
This is just paranoia. Having foreign investors in the media sector is like inviting new friends to a party - they bring fresh ideas and spice things up! Plus, it's like a cultural exchange program, making our media scene more vibrant and exciting. The apprehension and perceived blockages surrounding foreign investment often stem from exaggerated reactions fueled by fear of the unknown. Rather than objective evaluations of potential risks and benefits, these reactions are frequently driven by uncertainties and anxieties regarding unfamiliar territory.
Nice jazzy music at the end!!
Interesting realpolitik
Why is Mr. Fraser’s views not that not popular anymore ? …
He's an immigration extremist
Fraser doesn't like the free market.
By "the free market" do you mean the freedom of autocracies to buy up the infrastructure of democracies, and then use the resulting influence in the interests of their own political and religious ideologies, is more important than the freedom of the press to be able to criticize the power to do such things?
@@hexagram531 The country's critical infrastructure has been sold off to foreign interests, never a peep from Fraser or the Tory chumocracy cheerleaders.
I wonder why we are so desperate for infrastructure money from overseas...
Because we're not willing to pay enough in taxes to fund everything we want done yesterday already, because we want higher wages for less commitment so prices rise and there's not enough money to fund everything we want done ...
Fraser the traitor
Nelson is a classic clueless elitist prat. Can he just go away and move in with Sir Keir Starmer.
It's a shame these cheap shots from keyboard warriors don't also "just go away". I don't see a single analytical or articulate or philosophically grounded comment or argument or discussion point in either of those sentences, just emotional reaction and sniping without justification. I don't know Nelson, but listening to him in this video, there is a hell of a lot more thought and reason than there is in this "criticism". So who looks the most clueless, exactly?
The Spectator is no longer fit for use. Time to cancel the subscription, I'm tired of this boy's club comic.
# Donald Trump has said the USA will never become Socialist. Will he promise the USA will never become Islamic?
# From it's begining Islam(submit) has shown itself to be what Edmund Burke termed an "Armed Doctrine".
# Will Donald Trump as president form an alliance of free nation-states to resist Islam?