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CPBF statement on announcement of Fox/ Disney deal

14 December 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

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A deal for "The Walt Disney Company To Acquire Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc., After Spinoff Of Certain Businesses, For $52.4 Billion In Stock" has been announced. Those who understand the Murdochs malign influence on public life on both sides of the Atlantic, and all those like CPBF who have successfully campaigned against their Sky takeover have cause to celebrate … [Read more...]

The Deal Too Far

23 November 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

THE CPBF is launching a £20,000 crowdfunding appeal to step up the battle to stop the Murdochs buying up Sky TV. It is a fight that can now be won, as their empire starts to shake. Rupert and son James Murdoch have banked for years on the super-lucrative Sky channels in Europe to lift 21st Century Fox to the premier-league level of the US media megacorps. But after shock … [Read more...]

High Court upholds the status of IMPRESS

12 October 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

IMPRESS

The CPBF welcomes today's judgement (.pdf) from the High Court to uphold the status of IMPRESS as the first self-regulatory body for the press in UK history to be externally recognised as independent and effective. https://twitter.com/impressproject/status/918420355567509504 As IMPRESS write: At a meeting held in public on 25 October 2016, and following a nine-month … [Read more...]

UPDATE: Bradley refers Fox/ Sky bid on both plurality and commitment to broadcasting standards

12 September 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and SportDCMS

UPDATE: Karen Bradley has today (14 Sept 2017) confirmed that she is referring "the merger to the CMA for a Phase 2 investigation on media plurality and genuine commitment to broadcasting standards grounds". Good news re our campaign to #StopMurdoch's latest power grab: Culture Secretary Karen Bradley has referred Murdoch's Fox/ Sky bid to the Competition and Markets … [Read more...]

Their own worst enemy

11 September 2017 By Tim Gopsill Leave a Comment

“Rupert Murdoch 2011 Shankbone” by David Shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0

DESPERATE MEASURES are being taken by the Murdoch media companies to shore up the bid to buy up Sky TV. Culture secretary Karen Bradley was expected to announce that she will refer the bid to the Competition and Markets Authority as Free Press went to the printer. In July she said she was “minded” to do so after a report from the media regulator Ofcom that it would hand the … [Read more...]

The BBC Failed Its Duty To Promote Multiculturalism

17 August 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

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By snubbing the Welsh language, the BBC laid bare its true biases, writes MEIC BIRTWISTLE A BBC programme caused a storm of protest in Wales last Wednesday and particularly over in a field in Anglesey, where the country’s national Eisteddfod was taking place. The Welsh Language — Help or Hindrance to the Nation? was the title of a segment on the BBC’s current affairs show … [Read more...]

Will Karen Bradley Refer SKY-FOX to the Competition and Markets Authority?

28 July 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

Santi di Tito [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

by Damian Tambini It’s the Politics, Stupid I am in Italy so I am going to make Machiavellian assumptions. When it comes to media mergers, like Machiavelli’s Prince, politicians act on the basis of moral considerations or the ‘public interest’ only to the extent that failing to do so entails political cost. Machiavelli’s advice would be that the Prince, to strengthen … [Read more...]

Karen Bradley ‘minded to’ refer Fox/ Sky bid to CMA on media plurality grounds only

29 June 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and SportDCMS

Plurality In a statement outlining her decision on the proposed takeover of Sky plc by 21st Century Fox, Inc., Secretary of State for Culture Karen Bradley announced this morning that she is "minded-to refer to a Phase 2 investigation on the grounds of media plurality". You can watch the full video of the statement here. An invitation for representations (deadline 14 … [Read more...]

Creating a movement for Better Media in the UK

23 June 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) are hosting a public debate on Creating a movement for a Better Media in the UK after the formal business of our AGM on Saturday 1 July 2017. RSVP on Eventbrite. To get the discussion going we'll be joined by three great speakers working at the forefront of this burgeoning movement: Hazel Healy from New … [Read more...]

22 June 2017: Yorkshire Premiere of BELONGING: The Truth Behind The Headlines

31 May 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

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  BELONGING: The Truth Behind The Headlines shows what happened behind closed doors in three major industrial disputes. It also reveals disturbing new information about government and business collusion. A powerful, must-see film. THURSDAY 22 JUNE Unity+Works, Wakefield WF1 1EP Doors open 6.30pm Tickets £4 on the door Venue Conference Room 1 Film … [Read more...]

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