Media commentator Stephen Glover comes out today in favour of Rupert Murdoch's attempt to acquire total ownership of BSkyB.
In his Independent column, he argues that Google is more of a threat to society than Murdoch and his News Corporation.
He takes particular issue with Henry Porter, who wrote a piece in yesterday's Observer headlined How can Murdoch be handed Sky while the stench of corruption lingers?
(The corruption being the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which unfolds week by week to reveal ever-more-nasty things in the Wapping woodshed).
Porter didn't take long to respond to Glover. In an online comment, he accused Glover of caricaturing his argument wrongly "the better to knock it down."
As for the central argument against Murdoch achieving full control of the satellite broadcaster, there is a letter in today's Financial Times, setting out the case, BSkyB takeover will undermine UK media plurality
It is signed by Lords Fowler, Puttnam, Phillips of Sudbury, Lipsey and Borrie, plus media academics Justin Lewis, Julian Petley, Damian Tambini, Natalie Fenton and yours truly, plus NUJ general secretary Jeremy Dear.
