A Fit and Proper Person

The Cabinet Secretary, Gussie O'Donnell, has decreed that the Minister for Cultchah, Jeremy C Hunt, is a "fit and proper person" to rubber-stamp Rupert Murdoch's take-over of another chunk of Britain's communications media. Among Jeremy C Hunt's qualifications is an interview he gave last July, in which he gave as unprejudiced an assessment of Murdoch's contribution to British cultchah as one might expect, burbling that "what we should recognise is that he has probably done more to create variety and choice in British TV than any other single person" and that "We would be the poorer and wouldn't be saying that British TV is the envy of the world if it hadn't been for him being prepared to take that commercial risk". Well, I never. Britain's pride in the notoriously leftist BBC is misplaced; the reputation of British television was Rupert's doing all along! So much so, indeed, that following Jeremy C Hunt's whine about bias the Director General, Mark Thompson, made haste to secure his own future by putting his own point of view which, as one might expect, was very nearly as objective as that of the Murdoch family and Jeremy C Hunt.