News Corp takes aim over refusal to look at anti-siphoning list in media reform package

Australia’s largest newspaper publisher News Corp Australia has blasted the government over its refusal reduce the number of sports that must be shown on free-to-air television.

Miller: “we are disappointed… it difficult to accept this as genuine media reform”

As news emerged that the government had finalised its media reform package, Australasian News Corp chairman, Michael Miller, today said, in a statement: “we are disappointed that, despite the broad recognition that Australia’s media laws are outdated, the Government is proposing that only the reach and two out of three rules be changed.

“The fact that broader media reform issues such as the anti-siphoning regime are not part of the proposal makes it difficult to accept this as genuine media reform.”