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You report that ABC News is deciding whether it is proper to broadcast an interview of President Clinton conducted by a celebrity, Leonardo DiCaprio (news article, April 5).
BSkyB remains a fit and proper owner of broadcast licences, media regulator Ofcom has concluded.
In return for choosing not to dwell overmuch on the blemishes of Qatar itself, the new station was allowed to broadcast proper, hard-hitting news from everywhere else in the Arab world.
"In the circumstances, and notwithstanding our views in relation to James Murdoch's conduct, we do not consider, having taken into account all the relevant factors, that on the evidence available to date Sky is no longer fit and proper to hold broadcast licences.
"Whilst we consider that James Murdoch's conduct in various instances fell short of the standard to be expected of the chief executive officer and chairman, we do not find that James Murdoch's retention as a non-executive director of Sky means that Sky is not fit and proper to hold broadcast licences.
It considers that: "James Murdoch's conduct in various instances fell short of the standard to be expected of the chief executive officer and chairman," and is only prepared to add: "We do not find that James Murdoch's retention as a non-executive director of Sky means that Sky is not fit and proper to hold broadcast licences".
Despite Ofcom delivering scathing criticism in September of Murdoch's handling of the News of the World phone-hacking scandal at News International – stating that he repeatedly fell short of the conduct to be expected of a chief executive and chairman – the media regulator gave Sky a clean bill of health, saying the broadcaster remained a fit and proper holder of UK broadcast licences.
In having its statement broadcast without proper critical questioning and the right contextualisation, Eta has wrongly appeared as a group who wants to "put in motion a democratic process and to achieve its aims by peaceful, democratic means", as it stated.
In a subsequent post-phone hacking investigation into the satellite broadcaster, Ofcom ruled that Sky was indeed a "fit and proper" holder of a broadcast licence but had the final word (of sorts) on James Murdoch, whose conduct, it said, "fell short" of the standards expected.
In Britain, only "fit and proper" people can hold broadcast licences.
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