Ian Hislop on press regulation - Have I Got News for You: Series 46 Episode 2 - BBC One

the Privy Council is going to report on

press

freedom and plans to regulate the

press

and they decide to reject the

news

papers' own solution and

have

a Royal Charter, but the main thing that comes out of the proposal is that the publications that will not join the regulator, like for example a small magazine like Private Eye, those publications if they get involved in a defamation lawsuit and they win, they win, they prove that they were right in saying so, not only will they

have

to pay all their own costs, but they also have to pay all the costs of the person who sued them, that is, now they are laws that have already been enacted by the government, not by anyone independent of politicians, so the idea that, if they have a say over the rest of the press , will act responsibly, they won.

They won't punish those whose views they don't like and who don't want to play ball, and obviously that may as well be me. They should be simple and it's only because it was the Leverson girl, kind of one of those guys, who sits there saying oh, I've spent 84 years looking through a billion pages and she really should have sat there and gone home, for the love of God, all you horrible bastards are in jail and that's impossible, that's what happened. They all said, well, Mr. Levison, you didn't report anything. it happened, it happened, the biggest

news

paper in the country was closed, dozens of people have been arrested, journalists, many people are being prosecuted, it's a great result, it will probably be difficult this time as people are siding with the Daily Mail in the inside, you are not.

I mean, but I thought people were thinking, yeah, they were thinking I'm aligning myself with Murdoch and with data that is very, very embarrassing, look at me, I'm embarrassed, you know internally, I'm crawling, but you know, in Britain we have a free press is not a pretty press but it's free or it's people who can't stand the Daily Mail they say you should ban it no no no no don't ban it don't ban it don't buy at least once a week it will be good to have a story there that say: have you seen this woman on a municipal farm and she has four hundred and three children and they all receive benefits and she bought a giraffe and the giraffe benefits and now she told the government that the giraffe cannot fit in the house, they are going to buy a Creek Nicks and will install it in a cathedral of Paul.

Now she says that three of her children have Snuka's compulsive syndromes in the The whole town has brought a pool table, but she can't be a referee because he's allergic to white gloves, so the mayor has to come and worry about that point, otherwise Europe will arrest you, that is absolutely true, but from time to time. The Daily Mail publishes a story like Stephen Lawrence's murders should not go unpunished, he was murdered. We are going to campaign for ten years until they get justice. I mean, Free Press does good things even if you don't. like most of what they do, you have to let people make these stories, otherwise they won't appear.

What you're saying is that sometimes Luke Skywalker has to team up with Darth Vader, right?