Posted on 07/17/2011 11:40:20 AM PDT by yoe
Labour leader urges for new media ownership rules saying News Corporation chief has too much power in the UK.
( Ed Miliband) has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch's UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking.
n an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour leader calls for cross-party agreement on new media ownership laws that would cut Murdoch's current market share, arguing that he has "too much power over British public life".
Miliband says that the abandonment by News International of its bid for BSkyB, the resignation of its chief executive, Rebekah Brooks, and the closure of the News of the World are insufficient to restore trust and reassure the public.
The Labour leader argues that current media ownership rules are outdated, describing them as "analogue rules for a digital age" that do not take into account the advent of mass digital and satellite broadcasting.
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From where? Great Britain? ROFL
Yes! That was horrid - of course, the fact that there was a market for it was probably even worse.
I guess it’s no surprise that reporters were considered real bottom feeders once upon a time...
Wishful thinking by those whose “legs” tingle at the mere fleeting thought of FNC going down. They’ll be left deeply saddened, as usual.
The SOROS empire needs to be dismantled.
Hmmm. Is anyone going to express any concern about the number of political organizations that are directly funded by George Soros? I daresay he has had more direct influence on governments and people than Rupert Murdoch.
I gotta believe that Soros is behind all this
Why don’t the Brits take out Soros first, since he destroyed the pound?
Why yes. To somewhere that he might feel "at home" - Communist China, Socialist Venezuela, Fascist Cuba, Deranged North Korea....the list is not long, but certainly scary
Places that he and his Marxist daddy helped create with their ideology
I’m a little confused: if Murdoch “has too much power in the UK,” how did the Brits ever discover the problem exists? And where’s all the coverage coming from?
Miliband should be in a cell with Brooks. With a cask of Amontillado and all the openings bricked shut.
A teaching moment for distinctions between the Right and Left.
The New York Times broke the law on a regular basis during the Bush administration by publishing classified documents. I didn’t hear one call from our side during that entire mess for the government to step in and “dismantle” the “Sulzberger media empire.” But that’s the first thing that the Left wants to do as soon as they get the chance.
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