The High and Mighty are vexing themselves with the future of the press. I can save them the bother. There isn't one.
Parliament
is facing a showdown on Monday because they can't agree on what should
be done. Regulation is a must, they say, after all the rubbish over
phone hacking and corrupt payments. Got to get them in line.
That's
fine, except they are in line - down at the dole queues. Papers are
closing faster than the tote before a big race at Cheltenham and if I
was a gambler I would not place a bet on any papers being around in two
years.
A whole section of my local paper closed down and moved
sticks this week. Work is drying up for journalists everywhere. Nobody
wants to pay for writers when they can download what they want from the
net. That's progress. It's absolutely fine,
So the politicians can
do what they usually do and sit tight and do nothing because the
problem will definitely go away this time and we will all be a whole lot
worse off without our free, already legally controlled, press.
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