Coverage focused overwhelmingly on the economy rather than media control, but the new government will struggle to kick the issue into the long grass.
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Maybe it should come as no surprise that, in the aftermath of the hacking scandal and Leveson Inquiry, media policy was an election issue. Labour, the Liberal Democrats and the Green Party pledged substantive media reforms in their election manifestos.
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