Comments on: Murdochisation http://www.chickyog.net/2008/02/28/murdochisation/ The weblog of Brighton-based writer Justin McKeating Sun, 21 Mar 2010 18:40:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: ejh http://www.chickyog.net/2008/02/28/murdochisation/comment-page-1/#comment-38171 ejh Fri, 29 Feb 2008 10:48:39 +0000 http://www.chickyog.net/2008/02/28/murdochisation/#comment-38171 There is a lot less of this in Spain, where El País is the biggest-selling daily paper and the main television news still tries to operate the standards that the BBC might have done a generation ago. This isn't because of any great difference between Spanish and English people or culture, and the main reason is quite likely the coincidental factor that Rupert Murdoch is from an English-speaking country. But it's also that many people in senior positions in Spanish journalism and broadcasting still understand that serious and ethical journalism is really important and that it's not just a race to keep up the sales figures. Why do they think this? Because most of them grew up under Franco and saw the process of protest, liberalisation and democratisation that followed. There is a lot less of this in Spain, where El País is the biggest-selling daily paper and the main television news still tries to operate the standards that the BBC might have done a generation ago.

This isn’t because of any great difference between Spanish and English people or culture, and the main reason is quite likely the coincidental factor that Rupert Murdoch is from an English-speaking country. But it’s also that many people in senior positions in Spanish journalism and broadcasting still understand that serious and ethical journalism is really important and that it’s not just a race to keep up the sales figures. Why do they think this? Because most of them grew up under Franco and saw the process of protest, liberalisation and democratisation that followed.

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