A Major Boost to Our Campaign
Author: Donnachadh McCarthy
In a major boost to our campaign to get our Media Sovereignty Act petition debated by Parliament, Peter Oborne in an interview with the podcast “Democracy for Sale” endorsed the petition!
He said that if Mr Burnham is serious about bringing integrity back into British politics, he should act on a list of proposals, the first of which was the Media Sovereignty Act.
The segment is at 16 minutes and 10 seconds in the latest episode of “Democracy for Sale”.
Oborne said, “I very much like the Media Sovereignty Bill petition being put in front of parliament.
The fact is, we can’t have these huge media groups, with just two or three of them dominating 90% of the market.”
He added: “Particularly not when their owners are from goodness knows where overseas.
I mean the Murdoch empire, the Telegraph empire and the Mail.
They must be owned onshore.
And there must be monopoly considerations about the ownership of the media.”
Oborne also said that the details of the bill need to be debated. Which is exactly why it is a draft bill, recognising that the details of how these measures are implemented should be fine-tuned when the Bill passes through Parliament.
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Key Message
Oborne thus endorses our key message:
You cannot have a free and fair democracy when the media is owned by the 0.0001%.
It is time to end the unaccountable political domination of British politics by this tiny cabal of foreign and domestic media billionaires.
But as the media is owned by these billionaires and never covers their own corruption of British politics, we need your help to bypass them and get this message out to the British people, who are their victims!
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Media Sovereignty Act
It is time to end media billionaireism for good.
The Media Sovereignty Act includes measures that end the capture of our media by these foreign and domestic media billionaires.
YOU can help us get Peter Oborne’s wish for the Media Sovereignty Act to be debated in parliament!
Let us take back control from the media billionaireists. .
We know with your help, we can do this.
Many thanks
Caspar & Donnachadh x
The Media Sovereignty Act Campaign Has Five Measures
- Bans foreign media ownership.
Just 3 foreign billionaires own 77% of UK newspapers. - Bans the concentration of UK national media ownership by one person or corporation.
Just 7 media billionaires own almost all UK newspapers & social media. - Funds independent and local media with a Social Media Levy.
Over two-thirds of all UK media advertising is siphoned off by three huge US tech-billionaire corporations, leading to 1,000s of UK journalists being fired and the decimation of UK national and local news production. - Requires national media to be under the remit of the statutory regulator.
The billionaire media refused to join the independent media regulator Impress after the phone-hacking scandals. The billionaire media instead “self-regulate.” - Requires “dark-money funded think-tanks” that are covered by the media to declare donations in real time.
Think-tanks are privately funded policy institutions seeking to influence government policy.
Currently, many are corruptly dark-money funded by foreign billionaires, oil corporations and others to run propaganda campaigns to manipulate UK government policy in favour of their billionaire vested interests.
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