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December of 2000 White Paper on Communications in the United Kingdom

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it organized a new Office of Communications to monitor and regulate the industry, the White Paper has also considerably lifted many restrictions in order to promote competition within the industry.  This new competitive strategy however is seen as a major problem within the media industry as eventual destruction of public programming and the current freedom of the press which they  now enjoy. By allowing large powerful commercial media giants to merge, it makes it extremely difficult for the BBC to compete and for other smaller companies to continue to offer  public, local and specialized programming. Critics seem to agree that with the privatization of the media industry will come fewer choices in programming and less representation of public interests.  Summary and Points of White Paper The Communications White Paper is a joint publication from the Departments of Trade and Industry and Culture, Media and Sport (Byers and Smith, 2000).  In their Foreword to the White Paper, Byers and Smith (2000) explain that the White Paper was commissioned in response to the changing world of communications due to the extensive  and expanding areas of digital media, multi-channel television, the Internet and the markets for computers, television, mobile phones and game consoles. The White Paper and the legislation it implies would  allow the British population to have access to the widest possible choices of the diverse communications industry (Byers and Smith, 2000). During the access to the communications industry, the secretaries  responsible for the White Paper also want to safeguard the interests of the citizens and make sure that consumers are protected against poor service quality and being over charged by  companies for their services. At the time, the departments responsible for the legislation want to ensure a balance between freedom of speech available in the communications industry is respected yet