What is media plurality? Media plurality is
defined by Ofcom as:
- Ensuring that there is diversity in the viewpoints that are
available and consumed across and within media enterprises
- Preventing any one media owner, or voice, having too much
influence over public opinion and the political agenda
Ofcom has a duty to maintain sufficient plurality of providers
of TV and radio services and to review media ownership rules
periodically. The last review of media plurality took place in 2012
in the context of the Leveson Inquiry. Ofcom did not recommend any
changes to the rules as part of that review.
Ofcom's advice to government on a measurement
framework for media plurality Ofcom first produced a
measurement framework for media plurality in 2012. On 5 November,
Ofcom published new advice to government on a measurement framework
for media plurality which includes all forms of media, i.e. print,
radio, TV and online (both retail and wholesale). The framework
looks
