Church calls for 封鎖する on BSkyB 取引，協定

By SIMON DUKE FOR MAILONLINE
Updated: 10:55 BST, 23 November 2010

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The Church of England has joined the growing chorus of critics calling for マスコミ 巨大（な） News 会社／団体's £12bn 企て，努力，提案 to take 支配（する）／統制する of BSkyB to be 封鎖するd.

Church sermon: Bisho p joins chorus of critics against News Corp's 企て，努力，提案 for 十分な 支配（する）／統制する of BSkyB

In an unusual 介入, the Bishop of Manchester 警告するd that the owner of the Times, Sunday Times, Sun and News of the World would '支配する' Britain's マスコミ landscape if it 安全な・保証するs 十分な 所有／入手 of BSkyB (負かす／撃墜する 2p at 724p).

上陸 the 61% of the 衛星 放送者 it does not already own could see News Corp 演習ing 'subtle 編集（者）の 影響（力）' over the Sky News channel, によれば the 権利 Reverend Nigel McCulloch.

His 警告 （機の）カム just days after James Murdoch - Sky chairman, and News Corp's European and Asian 長，指導者 - 脅すd to 停止（させる） その上の 投資 in the UK if the 政府 stymies the 取引，協定.

Murdoch, whose マスコミ mogul father Rupert is the 運動ing 軍隊 behind News Corp, 警告するd that the company's 拡大 計画（する）s would be 'jeopardised' by a '長引かせるd 肉親，親類d of plurality 過程'.

商売／仕事 長官 Vince Cable recently ordered regulator Ofcom to scrutinise the 取引，協定 after a 嘆願（書） from a number of Britain's 主要な マスコミ companies, 含むing the Daily Mail and General 信用, owner of the Daily Mail and This Is Money.

In a submission to the Ofcom 調査（する）, McCulloch said the 提案するd 取引，協定 would bring under one roof one of the UK's big three TV news 供給者s, one of the two largest 無線で通信する news 供給者s and the biggest newspaper publisher.

Such a 複合的な／複合企業体 would '支配する both the television and newspaper landscape,' によれば McCulloch.

While Sky News has a '井戸／弁護士席 deserved' 評判 for the 質 of its journalism, there could be creeping 編集（者）の 支配（する）／統制する at the 駅／配置する should News Corp buy out 少数，小数派 投資家s, he argued.

'The 恐れる is that even though Sky News would still have to がまんする by 必要物／必要条件s for 予定 公平さ, there would always be the 可能性のある for the 演習 of subtle 編集（者）の 影響（力）, not least in the 過程 of selecting which news items are to be covered and which left out,' said McCulloch.

A spokes man for News Corp said: 'There has been an 増加する in plurality in UK マスコミ, with more people 消費するing news from more sources than ever before.'

Ofcom's review is 推定する／予想するd to 結論する before Christmas, when the 監視者 could order a 非常に長い 調査 by the 競争 （売買）手数料，委託（する）／委員会／権限.