Consolidation of US media didn't work out so well..
Utter rubish, Mr. Gibbs.
One only has to look at the appalling state of the media here in the U.S. to see the "virtues" of privatization played out to the fullest.
Aside from the fact your argument is incoherent and lacks any data to support your claim, our little experiment in under-funding public media, and de-regulating corporate media amply demonstrates the idiocy of your free-market clap-trap.
Surely you don't believe that Murdoch's Fox News exceeds the BBC on any measurable scale except shamelessness?
I expect better of El Reg than this kind of empty right-wing rhetoric.
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