Media plurality in Wales

Media plurality is often claimed to be important for a well-functioning democratic society: if there is sufficient media plurality, citizens have the opportunity to be informed through access to a diversity of viewpoints. Inaddition, media owners do not have have too much influence over the political process. 

Concerns have been raised about media in Wales.  In October 2013, Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Wales warned that the risk posed by a lack of plurality were “of pressing importance” and that it was essential that public service broadcastersand the print media “provide news and current affairsservices covering the whole of the Wales which can hold democratic government in Wales to account”.