Ian Burrell, who edits The Independent's Media Pages, has a very disturbing blogpost about the ambition of the Press Complaints Commission to regulate blogs. The new chairman of the PCC, Baroness Buscombe, seems to have gone native already and wants her empire to grow ever larger.She wants to examine the possibility that the PCC's role should be extended to cover the blogosphere, which is becoming an increasing source of breaking news and boasts some of the media's highest-profile commentators, such as the political bloggers Iain Dale and Guido Fawkes. Do readers of such sites, and people mentioned on them, deserve the same rights of redress that the PCC offers in respect of newspapers and their sites?
"Some of the bloggers are now creating their own ecosystems which are quite sophisticated," Baroness Buscombe told me. "Is the reader of those blogs assuming that it's news, and is [the blogosphere] the new newspapers? It's a very interesting area and quite challenging."
She said that after a review of the governance structures of the PCC, she would want the organisation to "consider" whether it should seek to extend its remit to the blogosphere, a process that would involve discussion with the press industry, the public and bloggers (who would presumably have to volunteer to come beneath the PCC's umbrella).
Oh, and for dessert? You can fucking suck my balls, bitch.
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She's a Tory peer. Another taste of things to come.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peta_Buscombe,_Baroness_Buscombe
She can do one.
Most of our blogs are hosted in America, anyway.
"Some of the bloggers are now creating their own ecosystems which are quite sophisticated,"
...an interesting concept, no? I wonder what might evolve.
...and how exactly is the PCC going to do this?
...oh wtf why do I bother...
"Is the reader of those blogs assuming that it's news?"
Do BBC viewers assume that what they watch is news?
who would presumably have to volunteer to come beneath the PCC's umbrella
Form an orderly queue now
"It's a very interesting area and quite challenging.""
oh fuck we are so doomed.
Is she "Whiter-than-white" as far as her expenses are concerned?
methinks she can bollox. And how is this supposed to work exactly? volunteering for governance by the PCC would be like turkeys volunteering to 'help out' with christmas dinner! just another statist cunt on the make
This is normal behaviour for the ruling class - expansion of empire: "wider yet and wider, shall our empire grow".
For the less erudite, could you, oh Clown, please supply footnotes with expansions of your acronyms. I am stuck on STFU, but managed FuckOffAndDie. If that be wrong I await your re-education programme.
"ShutTheFuckUp" ;o)
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