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We the undersigned petition the Prime Minister to Legislate to prevent any single individual or company owning more then 2 UK news outlets. More details
Submitted by Mark Donne of Instigate Debate – Deadline to sign up by: 01 April 2010 – Signatures: 150
More details from petition creator
In the climate of profound public distrust of politicians and the media, government must re-introduce media ownership safeguards removed by Margaret Thatcher. The power of media moguls – often foreign nationals and UK tax exiles – to create agendas consistent with their personal political ideologies is now a major concern for most Britons. The public have a right to see minutes of private meetings between politicians and media owners. Too often, news outlets are setting the news agenda and not reporting it. The capacity of media oligarchs to manipulate the news provision spectrum is now a threat to meaningful democracy. An example: all 177 Murdoch owned news titles backed the invasion of Iraq and the premise that weapons of mass destruction existed. This creates a national atmosphere sympathetic to potentially disastrous government decisions. It is an affront to British democracy for any media magnate to effectively threaten negative news reporting of political events or processes because a given candidate or party does not fully subscribe to the personal agenda of the magnate in question.
Current signatories
Mark Donne, the Petition Creator, joined by:
- jagz Kooner
- Matthew Pennycook
- Julia Lightfoot
- Thomas Spray
- Aidan Rylatt
- Lee Robert Mullin
- Ashlee-Ann Carter
- Alex Hardiment
- Tom Eagles
- katie bell
- Michael Franklin
- David Butler
- Adam Warbrick
- chris bennett
- gaye mitchell
- Toni-Marie Foster
- Hannah Davies
- Marc Henson
- Tracey Tupper
- Katie Reardon
- Daniel Hughes
- Mitchell Needham
- Matt Coller
- jon mcclure
- Paul Blakeman
- nabilah
- Donald Hardie
- Stuart Hodgson
- Max Kelsey
- Kathryn Reilly
- Vicki Lloyd
- Susan Hewerdine
- Liam Ronan
- Joe Harvey
- Marc Ridley
- Barbara Saville
- Sarah-Jayne Clifton
- Kev Freeman
- nancy batsford
- Stephen Habberley
- Ellie Gibson
- James Michael House
- Rob Durno
- bob clark
- Hannah Webb
- john a halliday
- michele howard
- Steve Wasden
- Adele Bailey
- William Cutler
- Catherine Taylor
- Hugh Ward
- Joseph Morris
- Alastair Cummings
- Claire Spencer
- Josh Feldberg
- Cllr Tim Swift
- Mark Oxley
- J David Morgan
- Christopher Baker
- Thomas Williams
- Scott Speight
- Robert Carr
- Henry Tinsley
- Rebecca Tinsley
- Daryn McCombe
- Joanna Natasegara
- Tom Hall
- Will Humphreys
- Andrea Robinson
- dp
- Vicky Cann
- Daniel Horne
- Toby Flux
- Zoe Gannon
- jonathan de Corday-Long
- sarah spray
- Alan Smyth
- Liam Barrington-Bush
- ellen burney
- Lesley Ann
- david Jones
- Peter Neal
- Austin Alix Loveridge
- pedram mehrshahi
- Megan Radclyffe
- danny garrett
- vicki graham
- Ian Hutchings
- Matt Bowles
- Alexandra
- Brian Lynch
- David Snow
- David Taylor
- tatiana barnes
- Sophie Buckler
- Emily Solan
- Liam Hannigan
- Aisling Clay
- Nichola Arnold
- Sophie Raeburn
- Steve Grice
- Victor Mo
- Michael Chewter
- Danny North
- James Hughes
- Hannah Erskine
- David McEwen
- Matthew Hall
- Will Jones
- Steve Raeburn
- Julian Goodkin
- William Cooper
- Paul Dimmock
- Jedge Pilbrow
- Anthony Jai
- Philip Keith Dimmock
- Dan Cash
- Ross Adamson
- Cathrin Lemoine
- Pia BK
- Sophie L. Ilington
- Holly Ashley
- Harlan Ashley
- Tom Bottomley
- Clare Billing
- Joanne Moran
- Louis Richardson
- Sian Thomas
- Scott Gowdy
- Des Freedman
- Yvette Graham
- Richard Hatch
- Bill Thorpe
- Ross Cheney
- Jess Sweetman
- Anitra Patrick
- Marc Denholm
- Rebecca
- Shaun McPhee
- Amy Leon
- Luke Withers
- Nick Donaldson
- Luke Kelly
- John M Sandland
- Rosie Balfour-Lynn
- steph price
- Simon Pearce
- John Lawrence Schonfelder
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