Virgin Media and Sky won't share colouring pencils

Well there we go. Sky has bullied Virgin media, and Virgin has done
what its Daddy (Richard Branson) would approve of, stood up to the
bully, said no...

...then closed its eyes and waited for the bully to hit them.

Virgin has positioned itself as the underdog. Quite right. They are
the underdog. And they get my support for saying no they won't pay
more to sky, just because they spent too much money on lost and 24.

I don't want virgin to pay any more. I don't want my subscription to
go up. I don't want sky one - if I want to see lost or 24, I'll buy
the dvds (the licensees of which must be rubbing their hands together
in glee). I didn't even know I had sky two, and I'm still not sure I
did. And as for the right wing, daily-mail-esque, minority-bashing,
biased, trivialised, scum-of-society-appealing, excuse for a news
channel - Sky News, well please excuse me while I celebrate that 3.3
million tv customers are spared from being sucked into believing the
trash news that Sky news purvey. Thank goodness that 3.3 million
Virgin TV customers may now be forced to choose one of the other,
hugely better news channels.

BBC News 24 - a good all round channel, but used to be much better.
Has suffered from dumbing down, and succumbing to a tabloid style
presentation and editorial position.

EuroNews - possibly my favourite news channel. They have less scope to
mess about with the news, as it is all footage with commentary. I
don't care for news anchors, I want to see and hear the news.

Al Jazeera news channel. I haven't watched it, it's had some
controversial press, but at least it is kept away from the government
and is not as censored as the other channels.

Anyway, I digress. The  point I am trying to make is well done Virgin
Media. Tell Sky to sod off and go and look down the back of their own
subscribers sofas for the money they overspent.