If you was PM for a day and could only change one rule after COVID

[Eric the Half a Bee]

At the moment there is no regulation. It can hardly get freer than that.

But surely we're in a position where this supposed free-est of free press is mainly run by billionnaires. Journalists at them are hardly free, they have to conform to their masters. We don't get much neutrality, particularly in the printed media; it is driven mainly by very rich men and their agendas.

I suppose my idea of free press is that everyone deserves a voice, and I'd like to see people having a more equal voice, regardless of how rich they are or what school they went to. Supposed freedom of the press certainly doesn't allow for that. You're all for freedom of speech. What is wrong with some regulation to ensure more people and more different viewpoints have access to providing that speech without being drowned out by the wealthy and the establishment?

[xsnaggle]

But surely we're in a position where this supposed free-est of free press is mainly run by billionnaires. Journalists at them are hardly free, they have to conform to their masters. We don't get much neutrality, particularly in the printed media; it is driven mainly by very rich men and their agendas.

I suppose my idea of free press is that everyone deserves a voice, and I'd like to see people having a more equal voice, regardless of how rich they are or what school they went to. Supposed freedom of the press certainly doesn't allow for that. You're all for freedom of speech. What is wrong with some regulation to ensure more people and more different viewpoints have access to providing that speech without being drowned out by the wealthy and the establishment?

But if 2 papers already support a particular party and another who wants to is barred from doing so, then that isn't freeing the press its gagging it, suppressing it.

[life on mars]

work as one nation

[cyril evans awaydays]

work as one nation

Presume you mean by that abolish the devolved assemblies set up in 1998, rip up the Good Friday Agreement and recentralise power back in Westminster

[Tuerto]

Presume you mean by that abolish the devolved assemblies set up in 1998, rip up the Good Friday Agreement and recentralise power back in Westminster

Nah, he's an international Socialist.

[Eric the Half a Bee]

But if 2 papers already support a particular party and another who wants to is barred from doing so, then that isn't freeing the press its gagging it, suppressing it.

So does a one party monopoly encourage freedom of the press or does it gag it?

[xsnaggle]

So does a one party monopoly encourage freedom of the press or does it gag it?

But we don't have a one party monopoly.
And there are more places to access news and information now than there has ever been. Many people never read
a newspaper any more for example, they find no need to.