{"id":17791,"date":"2015-07-20T16:15:28","date_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17791"},"modified":"2015-07-20T16:15:46","modified_gmt":"2015-07-20T15:15:46","slug":"the-need-for-a-stronger-consumer-and-citizen-voice-in-regulated-markets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=17791","title":{"rendered":"The need for a stronger consumer and citizen voice in regulated markets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave my first media interview as Chair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ofcom.org.uk\/about\/how-ofcom-is-run\/organisations-we-work-with\/consumer-forum-for-communication\">Consumer Forum for Communications<\/a>. It was to Ellen Branagh, chief journalist at Cable.co.uk, a price comparison website accredited by Ofcom.<\/p>\n<p>I took the opportunity to call for a stronger voice for consumer and citizen groups in regulated markets such as communications, broadcasting, energy and water. You can read the interview\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cable.co.uk\/news\/voice-of-broadband-and-mobile-customers-is-not-being-heard-consumer-affairs-expert-700000880\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently gave my first media interview as Chair of Consumer Forum for Communications. It was to Ellen Branagh, chief journalist at Cable.co.uk, a price comparison website accredited by Ofcom. I took the opportunity to call for a stronger voice for consumer and citizen groups in regulated markets such as communications, broadcasting, energy and water. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17794,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17791\/revisions\/17794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}