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Help #StopMurdoch’s bid for Sky: sign these petitions, email your MP, complain to Ofcom

28 July 2017 By CPBF Leave a Comment

“Rupert Murdoch 2011 Shankbone” by David Shankbone is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Would you like Murdoch to have even more power and influence over UK media and politics?

No? Here are three things to do right now:

  1. Sign these petitions:

    Hacked Off petition to “demand Leveson part two before the Murdochs’ bid can go ahead”:
    https://hackinginquiry.eaction.org.uk/lobby/skybid

    38 Degrees petition asking Karen Bradley to refer the Fox Sky bid to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA):
    https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/kb-cma-referral-openletter

  2. Email your MP

    38 Degrees have produced this handy tool:
    https://speakout.38degrees.org.uk/campaigns/murdoch-kb-decision-email-mps

  3. Complain to Ofcom

    Check out this campaign from Avaaz
    https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/uk_ofcom_july_original/

And a final bonus: join the #StopMurdoch group on Facebook.

 

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