Murdoch's Hatred of the English

There was a clip from Fox News on Jeff Randall Live on Wednesday night of an interview with Rupert Murdoch who was asked whether News Corp would have another go at trying to buy that part of BSkyB News it does not already own. Murdoch did not directly answer the question but said the best use of the money that would become available from splitting News Corp into two parts were more investments in the USA and not in the UK. Murdoch went onto to disparage the English in a surprisingly bitter and petty way. Clearly a man with a chip on his shoulder. Something to do presumably with his being a Scottish Australian! Anyway it was pretty ugly and makes one wonder why the hell he bought the Times and other English titles if he so detested the English. It also makes one wonder whether he has been told that he will not be found to be a fit and proper person to own media assets in this country, although I very much doubt that he will be so found for all sorts of reasons. One reason being that such a decision will look like an endorsement of Labour's stand on this issue and another will be that such a decision will raise the same question about other newspaper proprietors who are no better than News Corp. His bitterness could of course be a reaction to having been found to be in charge of newspapers that broke the law and his treatment at the Commons Media Committee hearings as a result. His hatred of the English did not stop him from fawning over Thatcher but possibly his fawning over Blair was easier for him as Blair is in part a Scot as indeed is Cameron. It will be interesting to see how the Scottish sister papers of the Sun and so on finally line up in the Scottish independence debate.