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Old 26-06-2010, 07:31   #1
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/politics/10423211.stm


Here we go, not been in two months, and already they are tightening the noose.

It is a legit target this time, but next time it will be 'any newspaper that undermines law and order' then 'any newspaper that criticises the government'
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Old 26-06-2010, 07:45   #2
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this is not censorship in the slightest

councils should provide information relating to council services not attempt to compete with local newspapers.
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Old 26-06-2010, 08:03   #3
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this is not censorship in the slightest

councils should provide information relating to council services not attempt to compete with local newspapers.
I didnt say it was, I said it was the thin end of wedge into a fissure in the press system.
Doing this is trying the water.
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Old 26-06-2010, 08:11   #4
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I didnt say it was, I said it was the thin end of wedge into a fissure in the press system.
Doing this is trying the water.
its not the end of any wedge.

your just being hysterically paranoid for comic effect and its not working.
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Old 26-06-2010, 09:08   #5
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Most council funded newspapers are thinly disguised PR puff-pieces for whoever is in power.
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Old 26-06-2010, 09:23   #6
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this is not censorship in the slightest

councils should provide information relating to council services not attempt to compete with local newspapers.
Does this mean that I will no longer have to recycle my unread copy of "Working For Sheffield".

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Old 26-06-2010, 11:47   #7
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Does this mean that I will no longer have to recycle my unread copy of "Working For Sheffield".

It might. It basically means that if a Tory council wants to send out a newsletter saying what great things they've done and how wonderful it is to live under a Tory council - they'll have to pay for it out of party funds and not council funds.

Ditto for Labour, Lib-Dem or any other councils, of course.
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Old 26-06-2010, 12:59   #8
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If it means fewer pictures of Scriven then bring it on.
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