By Frances O'Grady Some like to tell me that we have the best ever media, with the internet opening up new opportunities for comment, news and the sharing of views. But if you were to use the style of the new web fashion for lists to identify the UK's most powerful media owners, it would be rather short. Just three companies control nearly 70 per cent of national … [Read more...]
James Curran’s speech to the TUC conference on Media Regulation
Labour and the union movement have long been ineffectual in terms of media reform. All the really innovative changes that have taken place in media policy during the last half century or so have been implemented by Conservative governments, from the introduction of commercial television in the 1950s, the creation of channel 4 in the 1982 and the deregulation that began with … [Read more...]