The American Expatriate: Anti-competitive competition

THE AMERICAN ^REEXPATRIATE

"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge. I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture..." BBC's Washington correspondent Justin Webb, in a remarkably frank admission of his role in misinforming the British public about America and Americans

Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Anti-competitive competition

In a classic demonstration of the lack of fidelity to language seemingly inherent in government bureaucracies, the European Commission says it wants to increase market competition by, er, putting limits on who can compete.
The European Commission is putting pressure on the English Premier League to change the way it sells televised football rights, or face possible antitrust action for breaking EU competition law.
…the commission is looking for more concessions [from the Football Association], with some reports claiming it wants to limit any company's ownership to 50% of live games in future.
Mindless.