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The National Communications Council – a new body made up of representatives from (primarily) the broadcast media – has called for regulatory changes to broadcasting in Wales to deal with the ongoing issue of a “news deficit”.
The relative decline of the Welsh media has been debated in the Senedd on-off for more than a decade. Despite the concerns of many in Cardiff Bay, the Welsh Government and the major broadcasters have so far not been convinced by the case for devolution of broadcasting.
Delyth Jewell MS (Plaid, South Wales East) became the latest Senedd member to voice concerns about the lack of awareness and understanding of devolution and devolved politics.
The council said: “The Covid-19 crisis has illustrated the difficulties perfectly in that Welsh Government’s strategic approach has been completely ill-served by English media companies who publish and broadcast in Wales and who have regularly confused the message with not a thought to the substantial differences of perspective and policy that apply in a devolved nation. If anything has ever highlighted the need that something is done to legitimise our media landscape on this side of the border, then this is surely it.”
