>The Labour party is developing policies to break up the UK’s largest media companies, according to leader Jeremy Corbyn.
>In an interview in Monday’s Morning Star, Corbyn said the party also wanted to promote co-operative ownership models for the media.
>“We are developing a media policy which would be about breaking up single ownership of too many sources of information, so that we have a multiplicity of sources,” he said.
>“And actually promoting co-operative ownership and access, including local TV and radio stations and newspapers like the Morning Star.”
> The last Labour manifesto under Ed Miliband included a commitment to “protect media plurality” and update rules for a 21st century media environment. However, it stopped short of proposing caps on media ownership or threatening to break up any of the UK’s largest media businesses.
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/dec/23/jeremy-corbyn-labour-media.
https://archive.is/9bYPV
http://www.spectator.co.uk/2015/11/theres-a-right-way-to-lose-at-the-oxford-union-i-did-the-wrong-way/
https://archive.is/bpMEW
https://www.oxford-union.org/term_events/media_debate (it'll be on YT sometime during 2016).
It's 21st century. The free market of ideas is so passé. Wow, like wow, just get with the times.
My favourite part is how he wants the Labour Party to prop up small media co-operatives which everyone here knows are the spitting image of a successful, competitive firm. Their model is, as I'm sure we'd all agree, the envy of the capitalist system.