Blog police
The Church Mouse reports that Baroness Buscombe (new chairman of the Press Complaints Commission) thinks the PCC should consider extending its remit to cover blogs. She thinks that because blogs are a source of breaking news, they might need the same regulation as newspapers. It ain’t gonna work. I’m thinking of other attempts to use old rules to regulate new technologies. Didn’t someone once suggest that the Post Office should be in charge of email?
(EDIT: Guido says, “It turns out she has been mischeviously misquoted.”)
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Others report this is untrue
http://order-order.com/2009/11/18/pccs-buscombe-has-no-ambition-to-regulate-blogs/
Baroness Peta says she meant:
“[A] system of self-regulation (such as exists by the PCC for newspapers) would be more appropriate, if any bloggers wished to go down that route…I say ‘wish’, because any advance in this area would have to be consensual. Self-regulation is about collaboration between willing parties.”
(See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/greenslade/2009/nov/18/peta-buscombe-pcc1)
I don’t think that’s a bad idea, for bloggers who wish to have a reputation of fairness and accuracy, to voluntarily submit to some sort of review panel, when seriously questioned. The problem I have today as a reader of blogs is I don’t know which ones to trust, unless I know the blogger well.