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Sir Frank Rogers: Obituary
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15/8/05: The obituary for Frank Rogers in The Times (22/7/5) described him as ‘a notable guardian of the freedom of the press’. Well, up to a point. His role in the ousting of Cecil King as chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, which owned the Daily Mirror, could support this view. King became increasingly disillusioned with Harold Wilson’s second Labour government and published a signed editorial, ‘Enough is Enough’, stating Wilson should go. Rogers was one of the directors, who along with Edward Pickering and Hugh Cudlipp, voted for King’s sacking.
But in his later life Rogers was instrumental in setting up and promoting organizations which challenged media ownership limits and attempts to regulate the press. In 1993 he was a key mover in the British Media Industry Group, established to lobby for an end to restrictions on cross-media ownership.
Also around this time he was a key figure in the European Publishers Council. The body was set up to lobby at a European level for deregulation, liberalizing media ownership rules and challenging any EU legislation the EPC deemed to threaten the freedom of the newspaper groups.
In the late 1990s he was also active in the British Internet Publishers Alliance, set up in 1998 to challenge the BBC’s successful internet activities. It might be more accurate to say he was a notable guardian of the commercial freedom of the press.
Last modified: Monday, August 15, 2005
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