Media concentration is undemocratic  

While welcoming, finally, opposition by the UK's other main parties to the BSkyB takeover bid by Rupert Murdoch's News International, the Green Party is disappointed at the ineffective nature of the debate. Opposition to the BSkyB takeover has centred on a call for an adequate fit and proper person test. The debate has failed to give due prominence to the intrinsic and unacceptable risks of a centralised media. Penny Kemp, a member of the Green Party national executive, said: "It's beside the point whether a corporation is 'fit and proper' or even benevolent. The increased centralisation of media power is inherently undemocratic, and it will have dangerous consequences. Green Party policy calls for the UK media to be far more diverse and democratic. "The media need to be as focused and accountable, as the standards...