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MEDIA watchdog Ofcom is being taken to court over its ruling that Sky would be “fit and proper” to hold a broadcasting licence after being bought out by Rupert Murdoch’s 21st Century Fox.
Activist group Avaaz has won the right to a judicial review of the decision, accusing the communications regulator of failing to investigate Fox News content or take account of alleged corporate governance failures in the Murdoch media empire.
Avaaz chief executive Ricken Patel said Ofcom’s conclusions had put its “licensing standards in the gutter.”
Claims that digital media has rendered press power obsolete are a dangerous myth, argues DES FREEDMAN
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LAURA DAVISON traces how Murdoch’s mass sackings, political deals and legal loopholes shattered collective bargaining 40 years ago – and how persistent NUJ organising, landmark court victories and new employment rights legislation are finally challenging that legacy
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
