Murdoch Jr attacks the BBC

The BBC must be suffering from a touch of Déjà Vu as James Murdoch has launched an attack on the BBC more or less twenty years after his father Rupert Murdoch launched a similar attack.

Edinburgh has seen its fair share of up and downs but for James Murdoch, who is currently running most of the network built up by his father, this is a battleground from which to launch an attack at the BBC.

Mr Murdoch’s argument is that satellite TV and, more recently digital technology, has gone a long way to break down the borders between the press, publishing and TV.

However, the attack comes in the form of the claim that broadcasting is plagued by central planning, regulations and even state sponsored journalism.

According to Mr Murdoch, this is known as the analogue attitude to the digital world.