Murdoch is no longer the big man of this multimedia age
This article talks about Ofcom having other considerations on its plate, once – after submissions this week – Karen Bradley confirms her ministerial inclination to call in the regulators to consider the bid to buy the whole of something already effectively (39.1%) controlled. It’s five yearssince Ofcom recommended five-yearly reviews of the criteria by which it judges media plurality – and plurality (aka diversity) is really at the heart of its task now. The hard bit isn’t having an opinion on Murdoch Inc. The hard bit is working logically through an uncertain rulebook.
-The Guardian and Telegraph combined produce 44 million readers. The Daily Star boasts more than the Times
In 2011, with the phone-hacking crisis at its height, the Sun sold 2,815,991 copies a day.
-Today you can make that 1,666,715
-If you add the latest National Readership Survey figures (print plus digital) for the Sun and the Times together, they reach 31.9 million UK readers a month.
I believe it's a good thing that one man isn't so dominant in the media industry as many would see it as undemocratic. With this there is more competition and less sense of bias among newspapers and other news related industries which is essential for democracy.
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