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MP calls for clear limits on media ownership... 

Posted by Lobbydog at 10:58 Labels: Graham Allen
 
Diversity and plurality of ownership is all well and good so long as it brings a diverse and plural set of views. Our representatives don't actually want that. They want a comforting centre lefty Statist view on all channels and all papers.

Will this also apply to the BBC? Cut that down to size too please. It seems to be a glaring blind spot in the current kerfuffle over media influence.

Or better yet deal with the perceived power of howlin mad Murdoch by loosening the BBC from it's charter obligations - privatise it, mutualise it, let it take advertising or something.

Murdoch's power is only what politicians have granted him by being craven to his business in return for good pr. Labour was intimately joined to Murdoch for more than a decade. Let us not forget Alistair Campbell's news grid.

Murdoch doesn't represent anyone but himself. His media organs are not a guaranteed way to influence the public. Far more people don't read his papers than do - and telly coverage ain't magic either. If it were then Dave would have walked the election and Gordon would have been given a thumping but it didn't happen.

13 July 2011 at 11:28
