Lord Hunt, PCC chairman since October, told Exaro in an interview with David Hencke: “At the moment, it is like the Wild West out there. We need to appoint a sheriff.”
His initial plan for online media is to invite bloggers who write on current affairs to volunteer to be regulated by the replacement body for the PCC.
Lord Hunt wants a ‘kitemark’ style badge for bloggers, who will have to pay for the privelige.
When this type of thing was suggested for the papers at last years Editors Cose review it was given no thought at all. I realise that the PCC was Baroness Buscombe then, but still. The idea of regulating blogs was also raised by the PCC then, and the response was a big resounding no by bloggers. How would it work? Who would it cover? It would just be unenforcable etc.
Lord Hunt should concentrate on getting together a proper regulatory process with proper sanctions before trying to widen his remit.
Until then, Lord Hunt can go fuck himself.
