Regional newspaper groups are endeavouring to make amendments to the forthcoming broadcasting bill which will allow them to compete on an equal footing with national newspapers.
The Newspaper Society believes that as the Bill stands powerful national newspapers, with whom regionals compete, will be able to control local media which regional newspaper groups could not.
Regional newspapers believe that this situation can be amended by: taking into account all the media circulating in a geographic area when drawing up media ownership rules which will determine who can own what in that area; by preventing the broadcast media from owning local newspapers in circumstances in which these local newspapers are not able to own broadcast media; by removing the regulatory barriers which make it harder for a regional newspaper company to purchase another local paper than for a broadcasting company to purchase such a paper.
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