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Please block Murdoch BSkyB deal says UK government to OFT and Ofcom

Please block Murdoch BSkyB deal says UK government to OFT and Ofcom

By Staff on July 11, 2011

UK culture secretary Jeremy Hunt is to write to media regulator Ofcom and the Office of Fair Trading to ask them to look again at the News Corporation bid to buy satellite broadcaster BKyB on the grounds of (a) media plurality (there’s less Murdoch dominance now the News of the World has closed, so good [...]

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Former ASA man Christopher Graham now in hot pursuit of advertisers with new 'cookies' law

Former ASA man Christopher Graham now in hot pursuit of advertisers with new ‘cookies’ law

By James Charlton on June 14, 2011

As director-general of the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) from 2000 to 2009, Christopher Graham had a saying, no doubt loathed by advertisers who felt the strong arm of the regulator. He would often use his favoured media catchphrase, homage to the Canadian Mounted Police Force, when pushed on whether the ASA was imposing effective sanctions. [...]

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