Only tweets by journalists so far but regulations tend to grow
"UK journalist and newspaper Twitter feeds are set to be brought under the regulation of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) later this year, the first time that it has sought to bring social media messages under its remit, according to British news reports today.
The PCC believes that tweets can in effect be part of a "newspaper's editorial product", writings that its code of practice would otherwise cover if the same text appeared in print or on a newspaper website, The (London) Times reported.
A change in the code would circumvent a loophole that, in theory, means that there is no means of redress via the PCC if somebody wanted to complain about an alleged inaccuracy in a statement that was tweeted. Last year the PCC found that it was unable to rule in a complaint made against tweets published by the Brighton Argus.
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6 comments:
First regulate bird tweets. Next it will be pig oinking. Then is will be dog barking. And finally, it will be Tongue Tied 3 censorship, leaving only the squawks from Spurwing Plover. Sad.
It seems the British government has become what it was trying to fight in WWII. Old Adolf would be proud of them.
Why is this story here? This is just some churchy prig who refused to come into work and was fired. If this guy won't do the job, then they have to find someone who will. It's all very simple and no-big-deal. This "story" is not worthy of being printed anywhere, except for maybe a church news letter.
-L
TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,TWEET COME AND GET ME PUNY LITTLE LIBERALS TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,TWEET,TWEET
isn't regulation of speech a liberal goal?
Yes it is annon 9:25 liberals want to regulate speech ecept for themselves
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