FT Editor Wants to Tax and Regulate Guido
The FT’s cerebral editor Lionel Barber gave the Fulbright Lecture last night about media matters of concern to the chatterati (“The Future of News and Newspapers in the Digital Revolution“). Barber joins the chorus for a Media Standards Commission, with teeth, to replace the discredited Press Complaints Commission.
Of interest to Guido was that he wants the regulator’s remit to cover blogs:
Should the new system embrace new media such as the Huffington Post UK or individual political bloggers such as Guido Fawkes? My answer is Yes, not simply in the interests of a level playing field but also because the distinction between old and new media are rapidly becoming meaningless in the new digital eco-system. New media is moving into reporting. Old media is blogging and tweeting, and using social media to promote and distribute news and analysis around the world.
If bloggers don’t cooperate he wants “a statutory levy on advertising revenues for non-participants, with such levies being used to fund the new body”. Good luck with that, because it will require some extra-territorial innovations in international law. It is never going to happen, you’ll have to prise the keyboard out of Guido’s cold dead hands…
So the only place and people that will have freedom of speech is politicons in parliament.
Don’t be naive – there’s no such thing as freedom of speech.
Anyone else noticed how attractive William Hague is? I’d like to ram my huge throbbing… Oh shit, the Danish bint has just arrived.
Now, now, Stephen is just like me – long and happily married, a glamorous wife, who’s defo not a lezza, and two lovely girls, proving beyond a shadow, he and I are not raging fags, and like nothing better planting our seed amongst the loins of beautiful young rent boys. Ah shit, I almost had it off pat
This is why the FT is such rubbish these days. Any hack worth his salt would already know that this blog is not hosted or domiciled in this country, so any revenue or regulatory changes would not affect Mr. Fawkes in the slightest
Lazy, reactionary, pinko self interest promotion will not restore the FT to great institution we all loved in the last century.
For Gods sake Pearson, press the reset button and get rid of all the whinging socialists or you’ll be calling in the administrators within 5 years.
The Pinko Pink-Un is now a Europ e a n paper (also printed in Germany AIR). Since the majority of its readers are in Eurozone states, its electoral stance is Euro p e a n Socialist.
Boyo, we don’t bugger sheep in the valleys!
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/kinnock-relative-hits-out-at-gay-rumour-2355026.html
Presumably you bugger them in the same place as all buggers
Just struck me the other day as rather queer that so many sodomists make it to the top of western ‘democratic’ institutions. Can’t be anything in it.
…rather queer…pun intended?
Just struck me right now how it only took three posts to get from media regulation to buggery
Seems to me the twat doesn’t credit the reader with the intelligence to discern between a paper and a blog.
There is the question, would he accept the bloogers regulating him?
Don’t think his view would go down well in Egypt, Libya or Syria.
I’m glad I didn’t attend this now (it was sold out by the time I’d heard about it).
As ever the vested and pleading interests in the dead tree press remain completely clueless.
You beat me to it. However so disguised, special pleading is special pleading, and Barber’s speech must be considered as part of NI’s campaign to profit from creating an information cartel. Has Guido considered that regulating political blogs is firmly in the interests of the global political class? Regulation=control = lots of non-jobs on the taxpayers teat, and certainly the Euro- Left will be very interested in such a proposal.
Sounds good to us!
Its got a name – rent seeking.
Barber speaks for big business. He knows Pearson Group’s FT is under pressure from blogs and he wants to tax and regulate small businesses who pose a threat to him.
What a fucking twat and that’s being generous!
What is it with all these fuckers and their desire to control everything?
FUCK OFF!
Calm down and take your pills, dear.
Keeping ‘calm’ or looking the other way and pretending everything is right in the country greatly contributed to the shit this country is in.
Media – lies
Politicians – lies
Corporates – lies
Not ALL politicians. Read ‘Quote of the day’. That’s true
No it isn’t, it’s just the spite-filled opinion of a shameless dirty old man who is jealous of the worldwide esteem that a serious and honourable politician like Merkel is held in. Just saying.
That will be £3.75 please.
FFS fatboy, no one gives two fucks about a bunch of benders talking about controlling another bunch of full of shite benders. Where’s the story on the boyo bender Kinnock? Like yerself he’s ‘happily married’ to a ‘high-flyer’ – lezza, two bints produced for cover, and gay as fuck! Surely to fuck you must have bumped into the filthy queer hoor?
“bumped into” is putting it mildly
He’s a bit rattled. Things can’t be good at the FT and now everyone knows it.
The problem is the establishment(Established press) losing power and control over the message, They feel as if someone is stepping on thier turf and instead of moving with the times they will try and silence them.
Look at the blogs, heavily moderated, It is them that dont get it.
The silent majority may not be so silent in the future.
If the MSM has fair and balanced reporting instead of tribal “news” then they would have a lot more credibilty than they have.
That’s a big part of it. You also need to couple that with the ability of people to reply and point out that they are the idiots with no clothes on.
However, the big one is that they are losing revenue. Who is going to buy their papers for the news when they can get their own?
You’ve also got the problem where a lot of news is just rehashed press releases. What’s going to be funny and it goes to the heart of the Hari mess, is that software is available that will show who is just turning press releases into journalism.
If Guido closed this blog, there would be allot of empty pages in the MSM.
What on are you suggesting ?
True, Billy.
It’s ironic that the FT – the daily comic for tax-evading, regulation-avoiding bankers – wants to, er, tax and regulate others. Hypocritical Hunts.
I used to read that pinko paper in the early part of the noughties, couldn’t in the end reconcile a business perspective with lefty overtones.
Ended up only really liking Lucy Kellaway’s (spelling?) business lunches, which I think was printed on Tuesdays.
I’ve added L*onel Barb*r to the list, master.
What about Leroy Jones?
We support, – and supported, – Gordon Brown and everything he did.
And we wish to continue his fine example of regulating and taxing every f*cking thing that moves.
There! I think that covers it. Now f*ck off!
Another IT illiterate, much as their ilk would like to control all media outlets I will watch with amusement as they try to juggle soot.
This is all people like Lionel Barber know what to do. They suggest new laws, new policy, new mandate, new regulations.
It is destroying our liberty, our economy and in-turn the very fabric of our society.
People like him are the problem and not the solution.
Maybe if the FT didn’t charge so much for one paper it wouldn’t need to fight so viscously with competitors…
And he is one of Oxford’s best.
One of Oxford’s best what? Shoes? Marmalade? Rowing blue? Buses?
It’s painful to watch. More more.
I have posted this before, maybe someone could send it to the knob that wants to regulate blogs.
I never knew Guido was American.
and he appears to be doing rather well!
So I ‘base’ my blog in Lichtenstein. How does he tax me. Shows a total lack of understanding of new media
The leftie shits in the Economist were proposing a world taxing order, ostensibly to avoid tax avoidance/evasion, but actually to promote a ‘level playing field’
Cash is still king….
They must be feeling the cold wind of change affecting their revenue streams.
Guido should also beware of what he wishes. Hopefully keyboards will be out of date by the time any form of control is applied to grey market media.
I’d levy a tax on Billy Bowden
Fortune in the making. Are you offering shares.
He must be one of the last surviving members of the flat earth society or a 21st century version of King Canute (sometimes referred to as Cnut the Great and very appropriately too If I may say so).
Please, not Canute. One of his nobles maybe? Canute was trying to show the thick hangers on that he could not in fact control the tide and that therefore he was not all-powerful.
Truth is wasted around here. Just laugh at them.
This all pe-supposes that anyone takes this site seriously.
Its just a place to take the piss out of Billy and his ilk – nothing much more
Guido, i would be careful mocking other peoples cartoons.
People in glass houses etc
The FT is the unofficial mouthpiece of the EU, I stopped reading it years ago. All the cool kids read City A.M.
Trim this up later.
I remember this advert. 1983 I think. Skip to 8.35 in.
Ah satire, whatever happened to that BBC?.
It moved to Westminster.
Big Brother with a vengence! Freedom of Speech on the Internet MUST be paramount! Hopefully Lionel Barber and his uttrely boring newspaper will be ignored by the world at large that are not Economists or Financial Advisors?
Is it any good for wiping your arse with?
Obey, tell pony
Mongy Marbles talking to Jeremy Vine Radio 2.
He seemed to get into a bit of a left muddle over anarchists definition of ownership.
All property is theft … except for private property, in some cases..like someone’s car..or their house…but not if its a big house…or an expensive car..
I thought the point about anarchists was that all they own is a bomb and that for a short period of time.
FFS where do these half-wits get their ideas from?
St Edmund Hall, Oxford
In the land of the blind the one eyed mong is king.
The FT published an article last week in favour of banning anonymity on blogs.
This idea that if your successful, someone else in addition to income tax, IHT, CGT,Insce Tax et al, wants to invent another way of taking our dosh.Recently I stayed in a MacDonald Hotel and yes they are at it as well, a £1 contribution to some Royal supported charity from everyone who stays, automatically levied on every bill. Yes if you want an almighty fuss as you check out and hold up reception for all behind you, they will take it off. Cant I be left with some of my hard earned graft to spend as I see fit? Even more so Guido who should be knighted for the corruption he has exposed in British politics…House of Lords even and for the joy he brings to we internet addicts.
A business speaking dude does not understand business. What a great ad fro the FT.
“you’ll have to prise the keyboard out of Guido’s cold dead hands”
They can arrange that.