Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF)
for diverse, democratic and accountable media
Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation is on the move again by completing a £220m deal buying Wireless Group bringing Talksport (with 3m listener a week) and Virgin Radio under his control. The Group which owns The Sun, Times and Sunday Times via News IUK also has a 40% stake in the broadcaster Sky. More at: … [Read more...]
by Tom O'Malley CPBF The Draft Royal Charter announced today (15 September) in Parliament, will diminish the role of the BBC as a public service broadcaster, undermine its production base and weaken its position as the provider of diverse, challenging, and high quality programming. The Draft Charter contains three, key proposals: · Placing responsibility for regulating … [Read more...]
After a campaign run by the media unions and others, the BBC has announced that its News Channel and World News will remain as separate channels. The news was welcomed by the NUJ who had argued that the two offered very different services and were important and popular in their own right. Tony Hall BBC director general told staff that the News Channel would not be closed or … [Read more...]
by CPBF news release The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) believes that the recommendations in today’s report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) on the BBC White Paper (.pdf) fail to point out the dangers in the Government's White Paper. The Report accepts that the BBC should be regulated by Ofcom (p.17). But by making Ofcom the regulator, … [Read more...]
by MRC News Release The online and television media showed “clear and consistent bias” against Jeremy Corbyn at the start of the Labour leadership coup, according to new research, which also accuses the BBC of giving twice as much airtime to Corbyn’s critics than to his supporters on some programmes during the crisis. The exclusive study from The Media Reform Coalition and … [Read more...]
The CPBF has produced a special report on its response to the recent Government White Paper on the current BBC Charter Review. It believes that the government’s plans for the BBC and public service broadcasting threaten that system and the whole ecology of British broadcasting. To read more download here. … [Read more...]
by Nick Jones Broadcasters, like print journalists, are rightly being challenged by leading figures on the Remain side for the news media’s failure during the EU Referendum campaign to exercise sufficient scrutiny over the claims being made by Leave supporters. Based on my 30 years as a BBC correspondent, from well before the 1975 referendum, I am in no doubt as to how … [Read more...]
The Inquiry chaired by Lord Puttnam and based in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths was set up in November 2015 to focus on the purposes of television in an era characterised by technological transformations, shifts in audience consumption habits, and changes in cultural and political attitudes. Its report, The Future for Public Service Television, … [Read more...]