27-04-2012, 20:33
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The Invisible Woman
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Re: [Update] The News Corp scandal
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012...ess?CMP=twt_fd
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An alliance of media groups opposed to News Corporation's takeover of BSkyB claim it was blocked from engaging with Jeremy Hunt and his officials for more than three months, and was only granted a single "sham" meeting with the culture secretary three weeks after he had already given his provisional blessing to the £8bn offer.
The treatment of the alliance – a somewhat unlikely united front of Fleet Street rivals, including the publishers of the Guardian, Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail and Daily Mirror – has been thrown into the spotlight following the revelation earlier this week that Hunt's office was in regular contact with a News Corp lobbyist while the Sky bid was being scrutinised by his Department for Culture, Media and Sport.
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Another whole can of worms opened
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Hunt's office gave News Corp details of the alliance's key submission in March 2011, according to Michel's emails. The submission was the result of almost a year of work put together by law firm Slaughter & May, detailing arguments against allowing News Corp to take full control Sky.
Michel was apparently forwarded the document a day before Hunt's only meeting with the alliance, on 24 March last year, in order to obtain "critical views ... to help him forge his arguments".
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