Government must respond to Media Sovereignty Act parliamentary petition

The Media Sovereignty Act Campaign has been in touch with news of its work to end the corporate media stranglehold on UK public life:

After just seven weeks, the parliamentary petition demanding that the government pass the Media Sovereignty Act has reached the first threshold of 10,000 signatures.

This means that the Labour government now has to state its position on the domination of UK politics, through the hijacking of our media, by a tiny billionaire elite.

We do not have a free democracy, as a tiny billionaire elite has captured our media.

The Media Sovereignty Act has five demands:

• Bans foreign media ownership.
• Bans the concentration of UK national media ownership by one person or corporation.
• Funds independent and local media with a social media levy.
• Requires national media to be under the remit of the statutory regulator.
• Requires dark-money funded thinktanks that are covered by the media to declare donations in real time.

Director of the Media Sovereignty Act Campaign Donnachadh McCarthy said:

In my extensive career, I have come across visceral fear of ‘the Daily Mail test’ across all sections of British society and its establishments. It is time to end this billionaire hijacking of our democracy once and for all.

Co-director Caspar Hughes said:

I believe deeply that the most urgent political issue of our time is ending the hijacking of political power by the billionaire media owners. They persuade the UK population to vote against their own best interests, and this must stop.

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