Sky’s the limit

By The Newsroom
Published 27th Sep 2014, 01:00 BST
On Friday morning I thought it would be interesting to see the start of the Ryder Cup on TV, however, to my horror I discovered that the TV rights had been bought up by Sky.

As Rupert Murdoch eloquently put it many years ago: “We will use sport as a battering ram to drive up subscriber numbers.”

So here we have one of the most important sporting events that Scotland has ever hosted, secured by public money, being watched on TV all over the world but not seen live by the big majority of Scots who don’t have Sky.

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