parliamentary information office: The modern politician is a career politician. Most have never had a "real job" outside the Westminster bubble. They rely on patronage for their advancement in their parliamentary careers. What they don't want is unwanted attention into their activities.
They do not want their incompetence, hypocricy and downright lies exposed. They would prefer to throw the press, and the great unwashed, a few crumbs they can feed on and that would be it.
The phone hacking scandal was of course beyond the pale and I dare say, the culprits will pay the price, but....
Are we really going to sleepwalk into a scenario where politicians, the very wealthy and the famous can have their cake and eat it?
Are we going to allow ourselves to be railroaded into the dark, literally, by a succession of charlatans and sharks who, cynically, claim to have the public's interests at heart?
Do we really want a gaggle of so called luvvies being able to use the press at their convenience? The sight of a few of them in Parliament bemoaning their lot is quite nauseating.
The expenses scandal was the result of a free press, which despite opposition from some very powerful quarters, managed to unearth the horrible truth. Yet, how many of us really think justice was done here? How many of us think an awful many more of these cheats and thieves should have been prosecuted properly? An example of the great and the good regulating themselves. Just imagine a shackled press trying to expose this scandalous behaviour.
Be very careful and be very frightened. We are slowly being lead into a totalitarian policestate if we are not very vigilant.
parliamentary information office: I know the press can be venal, and the left wing papers downright treasonous and corrosive to society. And to a fairly large extent the press is already a pillar of the global establishment.
But the true aim of leveson is total control of the press and the internet by the "state". Control of the press is part of an agenda. A global agenda. A treasonous conspiracy carried out by our politicians and civil servants to form a global government.
Politicians with the morals of paedophiles, and apparently some who actually are. These men can be bribed or blackmailed. Or else they are too thick to see the big picture.
Before the rich men who own our politicians across the world can continue their agenda of a New World Order, they need to get the press tightly under their control.
The big power grab is coming. The global police state.
parliamentary information office: Make injunctions for the rich and powerful more difficult to obtain but at the same time make the penalties for falsification, libel and malicious publication draconian.
Take the case of Lord McAlpine, he should be able to go to court and hit the papers and the TV very hard. A small apology at the bottom of a column on page seven should not let the papers off the hook.
If the fact is a fact let it be published. If it is found to be a lie make the journalist/writer personally liable as well as the employer/publisher.
Apart from that let the press be free to publish.
parliamentary information office: I think, like many similar pieces around the UK press, this article is glossing over the reasons why the issue of statutory regulation is even on the menu in the first place.
The press of the UK has been shown over the course of Leveson to serially break literal and moral rules and to have been involved in cosy mutually beneficial relationships with other parts of the UK establishment that are anything but in the 'public interest'.
My heart really does go out to honest seekers of truth but one only has to look at the opinion columns in any paper from Guardian to this very paper to see that many supposed journalists are not trying to show us the truth but to sell us the chosen viewpoint of their editorial board. Perhaps not in as blatant and offensive way as happens in some other nations but it is hard to find honest reporting.
What is, perhaps, worse is the replacement of serious news reporting with the relentless quest for what amounts to little more than gossip. While this is more true of red tops I say this while seeing what Bradley Wiggins wife said on Twitter presented as the 4th story on the front page even here.
I do fear that Leveson and the response risks removing something vital for a democracy but unless all the press stop making excuses and act to police their own sector what real option does a government have in order to protect innocent members of the public from abuse?
If it was any other profession but your own the press would be leading the charge on regulation....
More awaited news on parliamentary information office.
They do not want their incompetence, hypocricy and downright lies exposed. They would prefer to throw the press, and the great unwashed, a few crumbs they can feed on and that would be it.
The phone hacking scandal was of course beyond the pale and I dare say, the culprits will pay the price, but....
Are we really going to sleepwalk into a scenario where politicians, the very wealthy and the famous can have their cake and eat it?
Are we going to allow ourselves to be railroaded into the dark, literally, by a succession of charlatans and sharks who, cynically, claim to have the public's interests at heart?
Do we really want a gaggle of so called luvvies being able to use the press at their convenience? The sight of a few of them in Parliament bemoaning their lot is quite nauseating.
The expenses scandal was the result of a free press, which despite opposition from some very powerful quarters, managed to unearth the horrible truth. Yet, how many of us really think justice was done here? How many of us think an awful many more of these cheats and thieves should have been prosecuted properly? An example of the great and the good regulating themselves. Just imagine a shackled press trying to expose this scandalous behaviour.
Be very careful and be very frightened. We are slowly being lead into a totalitarian policestate if we are not very vigilant.
parliamentary information office: I know the press can be venal, and the left wing papers downright treasonous and corrosive to society. And to a fairly large extent the press is already a pillar of the global establishment.
But the true aim of leveson is total control of the press and the internet by the "state". Control of the press is part of an agenda. A global agenda. A treasonous conspiracy carried out by our politicians and civil servants to form a global government.
Politicians with the morals of paedophiles, and apparently some who actually are. These men can be bribed or blackmailed. Or else they are too thick to see the big picture.
Before the rich men who own our politicians across the world can continue their agenda of a New World Order, they need to get the press tightly under their control.
The big power grab is coming. The global police state.
parliamentary information office: Make injunctions for the rich and powerful more difficult to obtain but at the same time make the penalties for falsification, libel and malicious publication draconian.
Take the case of Lord McAlpine, he should be able to go to court and hit the papers and the TV very hard. A small apology at the bottom of a column on page seven should not let the papers off the hook.
If the fact is a fact let it be published. If it is found to be a lie make the journalist/writer personally liable as well as the employer/publisher.
Apart from that let the press be free to publish.
parliamentary information office: I think, like many similar pieces around the UK press, this article is glossing over the reasons why the issue of statutory regulation is even on the menu in the first place.
The press of the UK has been shown over the course of Leveson to serially break literal and moral rules and to have been involved in cosy mutually beneficial relationships with other parts of the UK establishment that are anything but in the 'public interest'.
My heart really does go out to honest seekers of truth but one only has to look at the opinion columns in any paper from Guardian to this very paper to see that many supposed journalists are not trying to show us the truth but to sell us the chosen viewpoint of their editorial board. Perhaps not in as blatant and offensive way as happens in some other nations but it is hard to find honest reporting.
What is, perhaps, worse is the replacement of serious news reporting with the relentless quest for what amounts to little more than gossip. While this is more true of red tops I say this while seeing what Bradley Wiggins wife said on Twitter presented as the 4th story on the front page even here.
I do fear that Leveson and the response risks removing something vital for a democracy but unless all the press stop making excuses and act to police their own sector what real option does a government have in order to protect innocent members of the public from abuse?
If it was any other profession but your own the press would be leading the charge on regulation....
More awaited news on parliamentary information office.
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