No area is more difficult or more sensitive than regulating the media. Attempts to do so instantly run up against a vociferous outcry which tries to present the attempted regulation as an attack on media freedom.
This is hardly surprising. Journalists are most unlikely to be sympathetic to being regulated. Besides, this is classically an area where freedom and license are muddled, where there is supposed to be absolute freedom, and attempts by governments to provide a framework for the...
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Already a member? Login hereAndrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.
Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.