Blair Hints At Online Journalism Editor! An Attack On Freedom Of Speech.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/12/nmedia312.xml

Blair backs new online journalism regulator

Tony Blair hinted today at new restrictions on internet journalism, saying online news coverage had become "more pernicious and less balanced" than traditional political reporting.

Tony Blair: Blair: British media are like 'a feral beast'
Tony Blair: 'New forms of media can be even more pernicious'

In a farewell lecture on public life, he said that much of the British media behaved like a "feral beast, just tearing people and reputations to bits".

But he had particularly harsh words for non-traditional media outlets, particularly the internet.

"It used to be thought - and I include myself in this - that help was on the horizon," he said.

"New forms of communication would provide new outlets to by-pass the increasingly shrill tenor of the traditional media.

"In fact, the new forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory multiplied by five."

The emergence of internet-based news and 24-hour television news channels meant reports were "driven by impact''. He said that there was a need for the distinction between news and comment to be reasserted.

With newspapers increasingly moving online, he said the regulatory systems for papers and TV needed to be revised. Currently they are monitored by separate watchdogs.

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By George Jones, Political Editor
Last Updated: 2:18am BST 13/06/2007

Doesn't mean you're going to censor the press and the blogs to stop them telling the truth.

I guess Blair was happier when the press were echoing HIS conspiracy theory about Saddam and Al Qaeda and the 45-minute missiles...

BTW!!!! pretty_lies, welcome to DU!!!!

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