What Tony said to Rupert - and why it speaks volumes
The PM's extraordinary attack on the BBC has reopened old wounds and raised questions about his special relationships.
By Andy McSmith
(Published: 18 Sept. 18)
It may have been a throwaway remark during a private conversation with Rupert Murdoch, but what Tony Blair said about the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina speaks volumes about where the Prime Minister's loyalties lie. Not with the publicly funded BBC, an old established corporation that has served Great Britain through peace and war - obviously. There are, rather, two transatlantic special relationships that have dominated Tony Blair's 11-year leadership of the Labour Party. One is with the U.S. government; the other is with the naturalised U.S. citizen Rupert Murdoch.
In one comment - that the BBC reports illustrated it is "full of hatred of America" -the Prime Minister managed simultaneously to tell Murdoch something that he wanted to hear, send out a message of succour to his friend George Bush, and whack the BBC. Again.
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