by barry | Oct 17, 2023 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality, Press, Public Service Broadcasting, Reviews
The Media Reform Coalition has published a new edition of its 2021 media ownership report which featured updated data and analysis from the 2019 and 2015 reports https://www.mediareform.org.uk/resources/reports. It demonstrated the continuing concentration of media...
by admin | Dec 7, 2019 | BBC, Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality, Public Service Broadcasting, Reviews
The central role the media has played in the General Election Campaign is undeniable. So is the pro Conservative party dominance of much of the national press together with its anti-Labour party bias. Social media has again offered alternative platforms for the...
by admin | Mar 21, 2019 | Campaigns, media freedom, media ownership, media plurality
Last Saturday saw the launch of the Media Reform Coalition’s (MRC) Media Manifesto 2019 at their well attended Media Democracy Festival in London. The festival was built around the theme of democratising the media and the various diverse workshops looked at just...
by admin | Feb 8, 2018 | Campaigns, media ownership, media plurality
Last month the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally rejected Rupert Murdoch’s £11.7 billion takeover bid for Sky on the grounds that it would give him too much control over the UK media scene and was not in the public interest. They did not,...
by admin | Dec 12, 2016 | media ownership, media plurality, Press
On 16 February 2013 in my blog ‘Journalists trusted as little as bankers’ I reported the results of a Ipso/MORI poll which reported that journalists and bankers were trusted by just 21% of the people. The bottom group at 18% was taken by politicians. You...
by admin | Apr 30, 2015 | media ownership, media plurality, Press
This well-known work by Robert Louis Stevenson is commonly associated with the rare mental condition often called “split personality”, referred to in psychiatry as dissociative identity disorder, where within the same body there exists more than one...