By: Daniel Maris
Regulation by judges would be even worse. You don’t trust the press but trust governments? It’s not the media who torture, put people in concentration camps or murder people. But governments do.
View ArticleBy: perdix
If the press wants to remain free they should stop encouraging people to go on to the internet to read unsubstantiated rumours which they themselves are too chicken to report openly. That includes The...
View ArticleBy: andagain
“And regulation is part of that legality.” What on earth does that mean? Hacking was illegal. It would have been just as illegal whether there were a lot of government regulations or not. On the other...
View ArticleBy: PaulFrancis Leighton
I know he is as malleable, shifty and unreliable as the day is long. But his original observation was right. If the wretched man cannot stand by that since, I guess I am not going to be too surprised....
View ArticleBy: Gawain
Oh dear, you seem to be living in the wrong century and I am afraid you do have rather a shock coming. Ofcom are not responsible for regulating journalism or journalists (or those pretending to be...
View ArticleBy: Daniel Maris
You seem to have a problem distinguishing the self-organisation that happens in all areas of human activity – from sausage production to football to stamp collecting – and state regulation by...
View ArticleBy: Hugh
Neither the BBC nor ITV are self regulated. ITV is statutorily regulated. And, yes, Ofcom does regulate broadcast journalism as here:...
View ArticleBy: Sarah
And there will still be a wide spectrum of views expressed. Why do you think regulation would suppress views? Regulation, if anything, will break the stranglehold of the dominant views and allow other...
View ArticleBy: Sarah
Propaganda may well be more effective with government control. But it’s plenty effective enough with media control. It would become less effective with a public right of reply.
View ArticleBy: Sarah
How does the BBC get paid? Who pays them? Where does the money come from? Who enforces payment? Is the BBC independent of the state? If a regulator has a remit to be independent, it can be independent....
View ArticleBy: Sarah
Which isn’t what was said. It was suggested that a paper ceases to be effective if I don’t read it.
View ArticleBy: Sarah
What it means is that hacking laws are only part of the picture. A tiny part of the picture. Hacking is illegal, but many other harmful press activitities are not, currently. Regulation is about a...
View ArticleBy: Sarah
I do defend press freedom. I don’t defend press licentiousness. I don’t defend a press oligarchy. A regulator is not an editor. It is a right of reply.
View ArticleBy: Sarah
Also football, sausage production and stamp collecting are state regulated. And most likely better for it.
View ArticleBy: andagain
Regulation is not about stopping hacking, because that is already illegal. Regulation is not about stopping the publication of untrue stories, because that is already illegal. Regulation is about...
View ArticleBy: Gus
If I were one of the 47 I would now be more careful of where I put my dustbins and how I used my mobile phone. Unsubstantiated smears will abound and charges of ‘hypocrite’ will fly. Editors will...
View ArticleBy: Hugh
Is it really? Could you outline for us a few of the recent successful propaganda campaigns.
View ArticleBy: mike
And now they r trying to silence the press because of this peadophile scandal which goes deep into the tory party first this false detraction from the guy who was abused then the resignation of head of...
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