{"id":184532,"date":"2012-03-28T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-29T00:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/28\/rupert-needs-to-be-banned-from-broadcast-ownership-right-now\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T19:18:00","modified_gmt":"2012-03-29T00:18:00","slug":"rupert-needs-to-be-banned-from-broadcast-ownership-right-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/03\/28\/rupert-needs-to-be-banned-from-broadcast-ownership-right-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Rupert Needs to Be Banned from Broadcast Ownership Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news is that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/2012\/mar\/26\/news-corp-ondigital-paytv-panorama\">News Corp paid hackers to help people steal the broadcasts of its primary competitor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>Part of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corporation empire employed computer hacking to undermine the business of its chief TV rival in Britain, according to evidence due to be broadcast by BBC1&#8217;s Panorama programme on Monday .<\/p>\n<p>The allegations stem from apparently incriminating emails the programme-makers have obtained, and on-screen descriptions for the first time from two of the people said to be involved, a German hacker and the operator of a pirate website secretly controlled by a Murdoch company.<\/p>\n<p>The witnesses allege a software company NDS, owned by News Corp, cracked the smart card codes of rival company ONdigital. ONdigital, owned by the ITV companies Granada and Carlton, eventually went under amid a welter of counterfeiting by pirates, leaving the immensely lucrative pay-TV field clear for Sky.<\/p>\n<p>The allegations, if proved, cast further doubt on whether News Corp meets the &#8220;fit and proper&#8221; test required to run a broadcaster in Britain. It emerged earlier this month that broadcasting regulator Ofcom has set up a unit called Project Apple to establish whether BSkyB, 39.1% owned by News Corp, meets the test.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>No, News Corp is <b>not<\/b> &#8220;fit and proper&#8221; to broadcast in the UK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest news is that News Corp paid hackers to help people steal the broadcasts of its primary competitor: Part of Rupert Murdoch&#8217;s News Corporation empire employed computer hacking to undermine the business of its chief TV rival in Britain, according to evidence due to be broadcast by BBC1&#8217;s Panorama programme on Monday . The &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,984,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-europe","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}