Ownership and Regulation

The Sunday Telegraph and The Daily Telegraph are both national broadsheet newspapers owned the Barclay Brothers' Press Holdings. These broadsheets both represent centre-right, conservative ideologies, which might suggest that the owners of the papers are bias in what they write. As well as this both The Guardian and The Observer are sister newspapers so therefore, have the same political alignment (left wing) by producing similar content. News International have ownership of three different paper which included The Sun, The Times and The Sunday Times, and implement right wing ideologies but their content does differ. The Sun, also referred to as a 'gossip' tabloid, where as The Times and The Sunday Times are broadsheet newspaper, all of which are owned by British entrepreneur Rupert Murdoch. After the negative attention the company received from the Leveson inquiry, they subsequently changed their name to 'News UK' .

Considering more media industries are following the normal capitalist pattern of increasing concentration of ownership in fewer and fewer hands, this is leading to smaller variety of opinions represented and a purest of profit at the expense of quality and creativity. Ownership may be something that is a cause for concern in the UK because if one company holds too much power and too many popular news outlets then consumers will only be subjected to one opinion, rather than multiple opinions. Small numbers of different owners of outlets means that quality and creativity will be neglected when producing the news because owners only have one goal in mind, profit.