Update on the House of Lords Communications Committee’s Inquiry on Media Plurality

The House of Lords Communications Committee has begun its inquiry into media plurality. This is significant: as MPP pointed out previously the Leveson Report directly passed to Parliament several questions on media plurality and ownership, and this starts the process for picking up the neglected ‘structural’ agenda of Leveson. After reviewing the evidence, two particular sticking points stand out. The first involves determining a workable method for measuring whether there is an insufficiency of of media plurality within the market. The second involves the proposed solutions to be used to address plurality concerns when an organisation under review has been found to constitute an undue concentration.