It's Murdoch, stupid
So i'm churning out turd after turd passing for "popular" TV while the BBC is producing award-winning dramas, cutting-edge documentaries and independent, hard-hitting news (or as independent as you can get in a country whose leaders have been competing for Rupert's favour since the 90s). What'dye do? Obviously, tell the government to hobble the BBC by strangling its public funding in the hope of establishing a "level playing field" by which News International means - pond-life programming (see: When Good Broadcasters Turn Bad - Season 8).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
