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Yeah i mean the notion that Murdoch's empire was ever into shoe leather journalism was so far off that even he never denied being in it for his own interests. And the male alpha, cut throat environment is what you expect from him and the way he would instruct a company to run - and something a lot of people dont have the stomach for and when they see it, only then do they realize how much pressure is involved. But he has now left a few hundred more folks out of work, he has probably left quite a few people without a paper (as you suggest the Sun will likely go next) and now other than coming on here of a day to stare at my profile, i'm not sure what you'll do for page a 3 replacement.

No in all seriousness though, the trickle down effect will likely lead to an increase in charges for the rest of sky's customers and their buisness users...and that's all fine and well as its a free market but of course, when you have a monopoly...

See this is a problem in the half ass system, with full control they'd keep prices relatively stable as they have nothing to gain from jacking them up - not like the excess proffit is what Murdoch cares about, its the money. But this way with half a competitior here and there (Branson etc) and the fear of losing multiple outlets (the Times may survive but this may even force him to stop WSJ publications in Europe) may cause Sky's board to punatively push up rates for everyone left. And the amount of suspicion this has brought on so many innocent folks who did nothing wrong, is shocking.