I'm not sure how the legal status can be clarified. The law seems clear enough in cases of libel or defamation, and it's not as if tradmedia have a particularly clear legal position.
The rest of the document is some rather limp and half-hearted discussion of tradmed plurality, with a view towards going forward etc etc towards guaranteeing standards and a vague sense of unease that perhaps too many media barons might not be an entirely good thing.
Maybe Brussels can turn this lettuce leaf document into a fierce protection of media consumer rights. Somehow I doubt it.
In the meantime we seem to be safe from 3am visits from the State Blog Police - so I think we can relax for now.
we seem to be safe from 3am visits from the State Blog Police
I'm sure Phony Tony's got you on some terrorist watch-list somewhere in the bowels of MI5. You just don't know it yet.
This MEP is very condescending towards blogs, but that's par for the course in Serious journalism nowadays. Joke Line will undoubtedly be knocking down our door any day now.
Doesn't seem to be a terribly worrying thing to me. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
