# Why do we need Better Media?

**URL:** https://forum.bettermedia.uk/t/why-do-we-need-better-media/37
**Category:** Website News
**Created:** [26 August 2018 00:46 UTC](https://forum.bettermedia.uk/t/why-do-we-need-better-media/37 "2018-08-26T00:46:40Z")
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### Author: ![jdaviescoates](https://forum.bettermedia.uk/user_avatar/forum.bettermedia.uk/jdaviescoates/32/11_2.png) [@jdaviescoates](https://forum.bettermedia.uk/u/jdaviescoates)
#### Post date: [26 August 2018 00:46 UTC](https://forum.bettermedia.uk/t/why-do-we-need-better-media/37/1 "2018-08-26T00:46:41Z")

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Originally published at: [https://bettermedia.uk/2018/08/26/why-do-we-need-better-media/](https://bettermedia.uk/2018/08/26/why-do-we-need-better-media/)  
   
There is a severe lack of diversity, democracy and accountability in UK media, which is dominated by a handful of corporations. As co-founder of the Media Reform Coalition Des Freedman has explained, the UK media landscape is: “characterised by the domination of attention, audiences and agendas by a relatively small number of very powerful companies…