No connection with the friendly dinner

[Derek Smith]

One of the Murdochs gives a speech about how the BBC should cut its online news reporting because they feel it it hits their Times online paywall and all of a sudden the BBC is required to cut it online budget. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20110125/tuk-bbc-to-cu...

There is, of course, no suggestion that it had anything to do with the friendly little dinner that Cameron chez the Murdochs. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/did-...

[MX7]

Derek Smith said:

One of the Murdochs gives a speech about how the BBC should cut its online news reporting because they feel it it hits their Times online paywall and all of a sudden the BBC is required to cut it online budget.

I think you're trying a bit too hard here. They have been complaining about the BBC for ages, and just because the BBC will have to face cuts, it doesn't mean that it's anything to do with Murdoch.

[Cupramax]

Yeah its not like 400 websites is too many (yes there really are that many!) is it really... our money being pissed up the wall...