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LABOUR would “break up” media ownership to thwart the dominance of right-wing newspaper proprietors, John McDonnell hinted yesterday.
The shadow chancellor branded the press’s reaction to Jeremy Corbyn’s massive victory in the Labour leadership election “a disgrace.”
He spoke of how newspapers had targeted his friends and family since he had moved to the front bench and suggested leftwingers use “our own media” to get round the dominance of Tory rags.
Enduring myths blame print unions for their own destruction – but TONY BURKE argues that the Wapping dispute was a calculated assault by Murdoch on organised labour, which reshaped Britain’s media landscape and casts a long shadow over trade union rights today
With ‘Your Party’ holding its founding conference in Liverpool this weekend, JEREMY CORBYN speaks to Morning Star editor Ben Chacko about its potential, its priorities — and a few of its controversies too
