The publisher of The Daily Mail has said it should be allowed to take over The Telegraph to bulk up and challenge the power of Google and other tech giants.
In a submission to the House of Lords communications committee, DMG Media dismissed concerns that it would hold too big a share of the news market if it bought The Telegraph, saying British media outlets were now “minnows” compared to their US tech rivals.
The “tech giants” do not compete with newspapers, they are complements, not substitutes. Complete bollocks therefore.
Not sure of that, think social media’s doing a pretty good job of eating the MSM’s lunch lately.
Two cheeks of the same arsenal is the only way to view the alleged difference between different branches of the MSM.
Feckin autocorrect
Arse not Arsenal
DailyMail? Fuck! Should I prepare myself for Taylor Swift side-boob with the morning coffee?
If they can raise the money why shouldn’t they buy it? Newspapers aren’t relevant anyway, they lost that when they did the deep state’s bidding. Why does this matter enough to bother some bloody unaccountable quasi-legal game-fixing outfit?
Nessimmersion, I’m going to start using Two cheeks of the same Arsenal from now on.
Churnalism – the papers each just reprint stories appearing in other papers, then the BBC reports them and the papers report on the BBC report of what its editors read in the papers… da capo al fine.
DMG is on the right lines but doesn’t have its argument correct. What it should say is that the market for news and opinion is so diverse these days, that it would scarcely matter if all papers were owned by the same group.
Churnalism – the papers each just reprint stories appearing in other papers
… who mostly copied them from press releases, in the first place.
I usually just lurk here, but this falls within (or used to) my purview.
The CMA are currently investigating the proposed merger between DMGH and NewsCorp in respect of their printing activities in GB. This will shut down all Daily Mail printing plants and move it all to Broxbourne and Knowsley. They have until 28th March to decide whether to approve or move to stage 2 scrutiny. The CMA have taken the unusual position of allowing DMGH to start the 45 day staff consultation required before making all staff redundant.