Justin Schlosberg of Birkbeck, University of London draws a thick line between freedom of the press and freedom of media owners, and warns that protecting the latter can have dire consequences for free speech rights in the UK

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2012-11-26Arguments in favour of self regulationblogs.lse.ac.uk /polis/2012/11/26/arguments-in-favour-of-self-regulation/Justin Schlosberg of Birkbeck, University of London draws a thick line between freedom of the press andfreedom of media owners, and warns that protecting the latter can have dire consequences for free speech rights inthe UK.Times’ Editor James Harding argues for what he calls ‘judicial’ not statutory underpinning of tougher newspaperregulation86 Tory MPs write to the Telegraph to say  that State regulation of the newspapers is the greatest threat to freedom ofthe press in 300 years.Fraser Nelson, editor of The Spectator and a columnist for The Daily Telegraph,  calls for a truce on both sides of thebattlefield for the freedom of the press.Environment Secretary Owen Paterson has warned that any state regulation of the press would be a “horrible,slippery slope”.Whatever Lord Leveson says, Britain should hold on to its feral beast of a press – despite all its horror says formerTelegraph editor Dominic LawsonFormer BBC man and former Index on Censorship boss John Kampfner argues that statutory regulation wouldhinder still further journalists who preen too much and probe too littlePolis Director Charlie Beckett (who also exec edits this blog) argues in favour of self-regulation despite all the faultsof the press.Guardian leader argues for tougher independent not self- or statutory regulationCopyright © 2014 London School of Economics and Political Science1/1

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