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Bias In The Media

EDM number 1273 in 2013-14, proposed by Naomi Long on 08/04/2014.

That this House shares the widespread and continuing public concerns regarding the power of media barons in the events leading up to the Leveson report; notes that recent legislation gagging civil society groups has only served to amplify the voices of established news organisations, thereby distorting democratic debate; condemns the way in which groups such as benefit claimants, immigrants, women and environmental campaigners are routinely misrepresented in the media; believes that there should be urgent action to safeguard the right to independent and pluralistic information; further notes that a coalition of civil society organisations and professional bodies from throughout Europe has come together with the immediate purpose of running a European Citizens Initiative demanding action to ensure media pluralism; and therefore expresses its support for the UK Coalition on Media Pluralism which aims to open up a serious debate on the need to limit the concentration of media ownership and to increase the range of voices in the local and national media.

This motion has been signed by a total of 31 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Naomi Long08/04/2014Belfast EastAllianceProposed
Elfyn Llwyd08/04/2014Dwyfor MeirionnyddPlaid CymruSeconded
Caroline Lucas08/04/2014Brighton, PavilionGreenSeconded
John Leech08/04/2014Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSeconded
John McDonnell08/04/2014Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSeconded
Tom Watson08/04/2014West Bromwich EastLabourSeconded
Andrew George08/04/2014St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Michael Connarty08/04/2014Linlithgow and East FalkirkLabourSigned
Roger Godsiff09/04/2014Birmingham, Hall GreenLabourSigned
Ian Lavery09/04/2014WansbeckLabourSigned
Graeme Morrice09/04/2014LivingstonLabourSigned
Martin Caton09/04/2014GowerLabourSigned
Steve Rotheram09/04/2014Liverpool, WaltonLabourSigned
Jonathan Edwards09/04/2014Carmarthen East and DinefwrPlaid CymruSigned
Mark Durkan09/04/2014FoyleSocial Democratic and Labour PartySigned
Jim Shannon09/04/2014StrangfordDUPSigned
Ronnie Campbell09/04/2014Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Katy Clark10/04/2014North Ayrshire and ArranLabourSigned
Joan Ruddock10/04/2014Lewisham, DeptfordLabourSigned
Mary Glindon10/04/2014North TynesideLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins10/04/2014Luton NorthLabourSigned
Adrian Sanders10/04/2014TorbayLiberal DemocratSigned
Glenda Jackson28/04/2014Hampstead and KilburnLabourSigned
Jim McGovern28/04/2014Dundee WestLabourSigned
Ian Mearns28/04/2014GatesheadLabourSigned
Alan Meale28/04/2014MansfieldLabourSigned
Jim Dobbin28/04/2014Heywood and MiddletonLabourSigned
Paul Flynn29/04/2014Newport WestLabourSigned
Sandra Osborne30/04/2014Ayr, Carrick and CumnockLabourSigned
David Crausby13/05/2014Bolton North EastLabourSigned
Lindsay Roy13/05/2014GlenrothesLabourSigned

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