- Mark Thompson
- guardian.co.uk,
- Saturday 28 August 2010
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MGEITF 2010: Highlights of Mark Thompson's MacTaggart Lecture
BBC director general Mark Thompson uses his James MacTaggart memorial lecture to to argue that Sky should invest more in UK programme-making: 'Sky is already a far more powerful commercial counterweight to the BBC than ITV ever was'
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29 August 2010 4:23AM
Sounds a great deal like a bad case of "penis envy" on the part of someone who has been given far more power than anyone should have in any free society. But, this is not so hard to understand; in any socialist society anyone who is successful in a commercial activity places the state controlled systems on the spot considering that, on the whole, 'for profit' endeavors are far more successful than the bureaucracies.