60k petition to stop Murdoch buying BSkyB
Over 60,000 people have written submissions to Ofcom, calling on the regulator to hold a full investigation into Newscorp’s planned buyout of BSkyB.
Campaigners will deliver dozens of boxes of signatures to Ofcom’s London offices today morning.
It is the final day of a public consultation on whether the Murdoch buy-out would harm media plurality and democracy.
The campaign was run by web-based lobby organisations 38 Degrees and Avaaz.org
David Babbs of 38 Degrees said
More control for Murdoch is bad news for Britain. 38 Degrees members want Ofcom to get the Competition Commission involved. We need a wide-ranging inquiry into Murdoch’s power and how this takeover could affect our democracy.
Ricken Patel of Avaaz, said
Britain loses if Rupert Murdoch wins this takeover battle. Giving one man control of half the British media would be a disaster. Citizens want Ofcom to do its duty and stand up for a healthy, diverse media.
Both ran petitions on their website encouraging people to make their voices heard.
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Meh. He already controls it. Whether he owns it outright or merely controls it makes very little difference to anything.
Tim,
I think the campaign know that – but I think they see this as an opportunity to have that control reviewed.
To be honest, not a bad idea, although quite what would replace Mr Murdoch would be a sensible question. Note that Mr Murdoch is good at market placement, so I can’t see any of his platforms changing their political stance because he didn’t own them…
I don’t see what all the fuss is about. If it hadn’t been for Murdoch, TV in the UK would still be in the dark ages (eg, we would still all be watching three channels). as many commentators have said, he already controls BSkyB, so this campaign is about 20 years too late.
@3 Nonsense. Channel Four was launched (on analogue) before Murdoch bought out SATV. The argument later on for launching Channel Five would probably have been stronger rather than weaker if it had faced no competition at all beyond the four. And it is preposterous anyway to suppose that if Murdoch hadn’t made satellite TV popular, no one else would have succeeded in popularising new channels on satellite, cable, or (later) digital terrestrial.
@ 3, Neville, why do you say he took TV out the dark ages. Why is having more channles that could possibly ever be watched such a good thing.
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