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Tuesday, March 20, 2012

An attack on Aussie freedom of the press

The Australlian Labour government's recent Report of an Inquiry into the Media and Media Regulation proposes draconian measures for regulating the press.  Andrew Bolt covered his and others' reactions in a series of blog posts.  The titles speak for themselves:
A foot on our throats
Even an online site read just by your relatives is threatened
Media inquiry wants to control even blogs with a reader a day
Finkelstein: dodgy excuse for dangerous power
Finkelstein’s media council: will sceptics be censored?
Why journalism academics are so hostile to our free press
The rise of the totalitarians
The totalitarian instinct in Finkelstein’s report
Next Finkelstein will quote Chomsky and Che
Your right to speak and read freely is in danger
To be “unbiased” would be to print government lies
An attack from the Left on the freedom of Gillard’s critics to speak
Another reason to fear the News Media Council
How dare the Press Council censor even politicians?
Freedom is our best defence against abuse of power
Stifling free speech won’t guarantee good speech
Good stuff.  If that doesn't kill the report, I don't know what will. More here.

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Posted by JR at 6:49 PM
Labels: academia, Andrew Bolt, free speech, freedom, media, media bias, totalitarianism

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