‘Dangerous levels of concentrated ownership’ in UK media: Just 3 publishers control 90% of print reach
“A free, independent and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy.”
“A free, independent and plural media is essential to the functioning of a healthy democracy.”
“Rupert Murdoch has been playing this victim game for 70 years.”
The newspaper didn’t dwell on Rupert Murdoch owning an $84 million private jet.
With a handful of Conservative-supporting billionaires controlling most of the country’s national newspaper industry, the BBC in the firing line of the Tory right, the arrival of two openly reactionary broadcasters, and the launch of more right-wing populist news websites, Britain’s media is shifting further to the right.
The outspoken broadcaster took offense to reports about the fall in popularity of the flagship show on Murdoch’s TalkTV.
Defender of Western values Douglas Murray is back with a new book which has been promoted across the Murdoch media network.
Murdoch’s new TV channel launches next week, and its star host Piers Morgan is already whipping up controversy with his Trump interview.
We take a look at what Britain’s biggest media platform is obsessing about this week.
“We already have a press that’s very biased and not diverse, and a TV landscape that’s open to someone like Fox coming in,” the Byline TV co-founder tells LFF.
“Either through accident or design, the country is being run to suit the interests of Mr Murdoch and the companies he owns.”