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The Press Complaints Commission (PCC) currently lurches from one crisis to another, with the Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger finally giving up on its code committee (which, incredibly, is chaired by perhaps the least ethical of all newspaper editors, Paul Dacre), a prominent lawyer (with whom I once crossed swords) calling for its chair to resign and its ineffectiveness exposed by its failure to deal with Jan Moir’s attack on the late Stephen Gately.

Back in 2006 then chair Christopher Meyer made a nonsensical argument for PCC regulation. He claimed that blogs are too slippery for the law, but a voluntary code would be much harder to avoid.

In truth, only the law can regulate blogs, so the PCC’s ambitions are irrelevant.

Nevertheless, current chair Baroness Buscombe’s bid to expand her empire online has met with a typically robust response and the lengthy letter to her from the blogosphere will include my signature, if only because drawing the PCC out into debate will expose it for the totally useless organisation that it is.

Posted at : November 18th, 2009 - 2:14 pm
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