On Thursday 13 June shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman used Westminster University's annual Charles Wheeler lecture to call for laws which would limit media ownership. In an echo of our own proposals, she demanded a true plurality law: rigorous ownership caps, hard limits for forced divestiture, lower limits for intervention, and various public service obligations in … [Read more...]
It’s not hard to protect the small press from courts
The New Statesman has just announced it will be boycotting the new press regulator because new provisions for exemplary damages in the Crime and Courts Bill "threatened to drag in personal blogs and social media accounts." … [Read more...]