Mr Murdoch is rightly criticised for fostering an attack-dog populist culture in British journalism (and elsewhere).

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There is a culture within BBC journalism which promotes its own agenda, much of which might coincide with the sort of social democracy that the PM represents but much which does not.

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Shadow culture secretary Julie Kirkbride said she was not convinced by the proposed journalism college.

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He grew up in London, where the Fleet Street tabloid culture is cutthroat, and he shares the Murdochian view of American journalism as effete, earnest, and uncompetitive.

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