Australian Government Urged To Promote, and Fund, Media Diversity

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By: Roy Greenslade | Guardian.co.uk

The concentration of media ownership in Australia has assumed a new significance since the phone hacking scandal tainted Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation empire.

There have even been calls that Murdoch should be forced to divest some of his Australian newspaper holdings.

But the influential Australian media analyst Eric Beecher argues that despite News Corp's disproportionate ownership "there is no democratic or economic rationale to support suggestions that News Limited should be forced to divest any of its Australian newspapers."































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