(UK party) Labour seeks law change to stop News Corp renewing BSkyB bid

Source: The Guardian

Labour is trying to secure cross-party support for an emergency change in the law to prevent News Corporation from renewing its bid to take full ownership of BSkyB.

In a move designed to capitalise on the embarrassment the phone-hacking scandal has heaped on the government, Labour said there was still a possibility that Rupert Murdoch could reopen his bid and the law should be changed to allow ministers to block it. Ivan Lewis, the shadow culture secretary, will introduce a negative motion when parliament returns next week, which – if approved by all parties – could go ahead without a vote.

He has written to the culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, and the Lib Dem culture spokesman, Don Foster, with his proposals. The aim would be to introduce a new public interest test applicable to media barons to rule people out based on their conduct.

Under Labour's proposed amendments to Section 58 of the Enterprise Act 2002, ministers would be given the necessary powers to ask regulators to apply a wide-ranging public interest test. Ministers would be also be able to intervene at any stage in the process if new information came to light.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/28/labour-law-stop-bskyb-bid

The MurdocKKKs will not stop trying to gain power, even though they are losing their footing.

FALL, ASSHOLES, FALL!!

Ahem...

k & r

in the foreseeable future this is the Guardian attempting to gain some interest from its flagging readership.

Guardian Loses Readers Even After Ousting Murdoch Tabloid.

The Guardian’s U.K. Web traffic fell 2.5 percent in July from the previous month, according to figures provided to Bloomberg by Comscore Inc., whose data is used by companies including Facebook Inc. and Microsoft Corp. That’s even as Guardian reporters’ coverage of phone hacking at the News of the World forced News Corp. to shutter the title. Visits to the Daily Mail, U.K.’s most popular newspaper site, rose 5.2 percent. The Sun, another News Corp. title, was up 15 percent.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-17/guardian-loses-readers-even-after-bringing-down-murdoch-tabloid.html

For those not aware our Parliament is in recess until 6th September anyway.

Under Labour's proposed amendments to Section 58 of the Enterprise Act 2002 refers to Labour's own Enterprise Act 2002. As such they are blaming themselves.

by that I mean that the politicians who we elect into office might not be the best ones to make the decisions on corporate media takeovers and such purchases as the politicians are just to easy to buyoff as we have seen with campaign donations/bribes.