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Growing - documentary: Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final...

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Auschwitz: The Nazis and the ‘Final Solution’, is a BBC six-episode documentary film series presenting the story of Auschwitz through interviews with former inmates and guards and re-enactments, first televised on BBC One on 11 January 2005. The series prominently featured the music of Gorecki Symphony No 3 , Arvo Pärt’s “Spiegel im Spiegel” and Handel’s Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In D Minor, HWV 437: Sarabande. In the United States, this series first aired on PBS television stations as Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State in early 2005 and was released, under that title, in a 2-DVD box set (Region 1), by BBC Warner, on 29 March 2005.

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Al Jazeera English - LISTENING POST - The Murdoch empire vs. the BBC

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On the Listening Post this week, the Murdoch empire takes on the British Broadcasting Corporation and the muslim rapper who says he is "Loosing his religion to tomorrows headlines".

We begin this week with a tale of two media empires – one private and one publicly owned.

Rupert Murdoch's NewsCorp is the world's biggest media company in private hands – it is valued at more than 50 billion dollars – and its influence spans many countries.

Britain's state funded broadcaster – the BBC – is the world's largest news organisation. NewsCorp went after the BBC – and another important British institution – the country's broadcast regulator – Ofcom.

James Murdoch, the heir apparent to his father's company – accused the BBC and Ofcom of strangling private media – is what he described as an unfair fight.

Essentially Murdoch asked – how can companies like NewsCorp charge web users for news content – when state subsidized news sites like the BBC's – offer news on the web for free?

That is our starting point this week: two different visions of the future of media – one private; one public – what news should cost on the web – and the potential repercussions that these competing visions might have for news consumers everywhere.

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