The Ofcom boss,Sharon White, told a Westminster committee the body would need to act competently and independently if given recent powersSharon White, and the head of Ofcom,has warned that the regulator must remain independent of government if it is to take over full regulation of the BBC. Answering questions from the House of Lords communications committee, White said that while it remained to be seen what the government would determine in its proposals of the renewal of the BBC’s royal constitution, or the media regulator needed to act “competently and independently”.
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Source: theguardian.com