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House of Lords to probe media ownership |
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Tuesday, 26 June 2007 |
The House of Lords Communications Committee has today launched a new inquiry into media ownership and the news.
The inquiry will be in two parts, with the Committee first focusing on
changes in the way people access news, developments in the way news is
provided and how contracted media ownership affects the balance and
diversity of news in a democracy.
The committee will then go on to consider the concentration of media
ownership, cross media ownership and the regulation framework.
It has launched a call for evidence for the first part of the inquiry,
and this includes questions about media ownership on editorial content,
and how to protect and definte the public interest in terms of news
provision. A separate call for evidence will be issued later in the
year for the second part of the inquiry.
Lord Fowler, who chairs the House of Lords Communications Committee, said:
"There has been an increasing concentration of ownership in the media.
We want to examine if this has had an effect upon news provision. There
are important public interest factors here. In a democracy it is vital
to have as wide a diversity of news as possible.
"There has been very little work investigating the impact of ownership
on editorial priorities such as fairness, accuracy and impartiality. It
is important to know what influence ownership has in order to make
informed decisions on media regulation."
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