Media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose four-channel satellite Sky Television is trying to bust the near-monopoly of the BBC and ITV on the British tube, has blasted his two competitors.
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"British television has been an integral part of the British disease," Murdoch told an Edinburgh audience. "Strangulated English accents dominate dramas that are played out in rigid class-structured settings. Much of what passes for quality in British television really is no more than the reflection of the values of a narrow elite."