Cross media ownership: Xenophon bloc likely to support scrapping diversity rules
This article discusses the Turnbull Government (Australia) view on the ownership of media. They want media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes to own television, radio and newspaper assets in the same market. NXT senator Stirling Griff who has carriage of the issue for the Xenophon party (Nicholas Xenophon is an Australian senator for South Australisa - team NXT), tolf Guardian Australia he was personally supportive of the Government's proposal. The Government is proposing to dump the media regulations known as the 75% reach rule and the two out of three rule. Reach Rule: prevents nine entertainment, seven west media and ten network from owning their regional affiliates. The Two out of Three rule: restricts cross media ownership, preventing moguls from controlling a free to air TV station, newspapers and radio stations in the same market. They hope that media reform will be back squarely on the political agenda when federal parliament resumes next week (Turnbull and others).
- Griff says 'the real power now is with the web, with social media, with Facebook and Google. I think we have great diversity'.
- Government proposing to dump media regulations
- Labour supportive of scrapping the reach rule
From what I understand the Australian Government want people with power with media institutions to control the media as a whole in the country. This may not be such a bad move because these owners have control of most institutions in the industry.
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