I think Mailwatch should apply. We're ideally suited, and it fits in with Cameron's Big Society.

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I was actually thinking about something a little like that last night.

Why hasn't the DM been taking down for inciting racial hatred amongst many other things?

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Because they always stop just short. They provide the ammunition for the readers to fire off but they never, ever put their fingers on the trigger. It's very clever really.

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But surely there's got to be a way to "fix" it?

I mean, if we take that story about the metal thieves and tweak it, the difference is *massive* in how someone would react.

"Metal thieves take £X of metal and damage a listed building"
"Forrin metal thieves destroy roof of Christian building!"

One is news, the other is incitement.

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They are both strictly factual, and therefore quite legal.
It takes the comments to gloss the latter and give it extra force, just in case readers don't get the extra information...

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I think that well illustrates the need for ethics, as policed by a professional body. As Socrates would have said, we're very careful about what people can put in your body, but we let them put all sorts of shit in your mind.

Anyway, why doesn't any lead ever get stolen off the roof of the mosque, eh?

Given that from what little I understand about the PCC it seems like a pretty pointless organisation anyway, I'll need someone to explain how anyone will notice the difference when it's gone, if indeed it goes. It seemed too weak to do it's perscribed job anyway.

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Pretty much what I'm thinking. The DM might not in a strict legal sense be doing any wrong, but in an ethical sense - and even in a slightly looser sense via their constant misrepresentation and reporting style - they are more often in the wrong than not.

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I'm only doing it if I get proper safety equipment:
* A service revolver - for cuntish editors.
* A troop of SAS - to secure crimescenes and liquidate "rotten apples".
* My own personal stuka - to demolish condemned premises, and make Max Hastings poop his pants when the trumpets of Jericho kick in.

Looks like more dark clouds for Murdoch.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnologyandtelecoms/9132280/Ofcom-steps-up-pressure-on-Murdochs-over-BSkyB.html

I also saw a story in the Independent that claimed Al Jazeera could be about to battle it out with BSKYB for the rights to show premiership football. It just gets better every day.

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Ofcom aren't exactly like wild west sheriffs though, are they?

Funny Gove likes school inspectors to be like that, but not media regulators.

I'd love to see Al Jazeera get it just for the look on the faces of the Mailites.

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Even if Al Jazeera don't win the football rights even they just put in a good bid it will ensure Murdoch is forced to pay over the odds for the rights which will have an adverse effect on Sky's profits.

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There's a whinge in the Mail today about the cost of Leveson. Worth every penny, I say, just for the pleasure of seeing Dacre squirm.

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