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

[Paul Wilson]

God help the multistakeholder process if News Corp gets involved.

Paul.




On 18 Jul 2014, at 10:36 am, Pranesh Prakash <pranesh at cis-india.org> wrote:

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