[governance] Rupert Murdoch Says Businesses Should Have A Larger Say in Public Policy

[Pranesh Prakash]

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA256

Rupert Murdoch echoes the calls of IG multistakeholderists, writ large
to all of public policy.  Says governments should "take a back seat".

http://goo.gl/NAZCfY

- From the Australian Associated Press:

## Media mogul tells B20 meeting in Sydney that companies must be
allowed to help shape public policy ##

[snip]
> Rupert Murdoch says business has a right to speak out on public
> policy matters, even on issues not directly related to their area
> of operation.
> 
> "Business is just as entitled to express its opinion as unions
> are," the News Corporation executive chairman told the B20 summit
> of business leaders in Sydney.
> 
> "The trouble, I find, is usually unions represent hundreds of
> thousands of voters whereas a business represents just one."
> 
> Murdoch said business had a role to play in shaping public policy
> in a democracy.
> 
> "If we feel we have a contribution to make to the debate we should
> do so. Certainly my newspapers do so every day and we far from
> regularly win the argument.
> 
> "It's very important that, if we live in a democracy, with real
> entrepreneurship, you've got to have a world of ideas to debate."
> 
> Murdoch said businesses should be involved in shaping public policy
> and also suggested governments needed to loosen constraints on
> business.
> 
> "You should be leaving the public, by the normal processes of
> demand, to provide business with the opportunities to get on with
> life and get the governments to take a back seat," he said.
> 
> The B20 is a meeting of 400 business leaders from the world's
> leading economies, gathered in Sydney to provide a list of
> recommendations to the G20 group of government leaders when they
> meet in Brisbane in November

[/snip]

- -- 
Pranesh Prakash
Policy Director, Centre for Internet and Society
T: +91 80 40926283 | W: http://cis-india.org
- -------------------
Access to Knowledge Fellow, Information Society Project, Yale Law School
M: +1 520 314 7147 | W: http://yaleisp.org
PGP ID: 0x1D5C5F07 | Twitter: https://twitter.com/pranesh_prakash
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1
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=2kcD
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

-------------- next part --------------
____________________________________________________________
You received this message as a subscriber on the list:
     governance at lists.igcaucus.org
To be removed from the list, visit:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/unsubscribing

For all other list information and functions, see:
     http://lists.igcaucus.org/info/governance
To edit your profile and to find the IGC's charter, see:
     http://www.igcaucus.org/

Translate this email: http://translate.google.com/translate_t