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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Roy Greenslade

How Murdoch should spend $12bn...

My item on News Corp's cash pile prompts a reader to suggest how the company boss, Rupert Murdoch, might spend some of the $12bn.

It should be placed into a trust with the following objectives...

1. Finding out what went wrong at News International

2. Funding a proper Press Complaints Commission

3. Setting up university courses in journalism ethics

4. Funding the training of would-be journalists

5. Freeing BSkyB from its Murdoch dependence and giving the poor user a better deal

6. Reinstating BBC World on Chinese satellites

Thank you to Charles Norrie for that. I can't turn on comments, but you can email ideas to me at roy.greenslade@guardian.co.uk

11am update: Here are some more just in (the printable ones).

David writes: "Perhaps some might be put aside for the innocent and hard-working people whose lives he wrecked and whose families he endangered by the cynical closure of the News of the World."

And Mark, on a similar theme, writes: Oddly, you never suggest paying compensation to all the people whose lives he damaged and/or destroyed."

He adds: "He should spend his money seeing how the poor and the socially deprived live."

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