August 23, 2012 – Shine Group chairman Elisabeth Murdoch has called for greater responsibility and morality in media at the Edinburgh International TV Festival in a speech which in parts went against comments made previously by brother James.
Delivering the annual MacTaggart Lecture, Elisabeth distanced herself from James’s keynote on the same platform three years earlier, in which he attacked regulators and the BBC and said the only guarantor of independence was profit.
“James was right that if you remove profit, then independence is massively challenged, but I think that he left something out: the reason his statement sat so uncomfortably is that profit without purpose is a recipe for disaster.”
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