The growth of new media today makes it more important than ever to reduce media-specific government controls over content and ownership, warns Newspaper Society deputy director David Newell.
Speaking at the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society Lecture yesterday, on the subject of Media Freedoms and Controls in the New Information Age, Mr Newell went on to say that it was increasingly anomalous that the traditional content industries – newspapers and broadcasters – had specific ownership regulations which restricted their development as multi-media companies. This is in comparison to the new information industries which are, he believes, essentially unregulated.
Mr Newell called for a wider debate based on the rights of the individual citizen, saying that the vigorous and independent nature of UK media is “underpinned more by the operation of a free market than by media regulation or ownership controls.”
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