Tuesday 11 November 2014

Reporting Restrictions

How ridiculous, you may think, that the handpicked journalists who are permitted to attend the rapidly collapsing trial of Erol Incedal are not permitted to report what they hear.
 
No more ridiculous than the Parliamentary Lobby system. Or, to put it another way, that system is no more ridiculous than this.
 
In this age of live-streaming and all the rest of it, where is the remaining need of the Parliamentary Press Gallery? It now fills up its time inventing non-existent plots against Ed Miliband.

The Parliamentary Labour Party met last night. There were 23 speeches, and they were all pro-Ed. The media are making this up.

The polling in the key marginals has been consistent forever, and there is no sign that these "20 Shadow Ministers" really exist.

In any case, as none of the media seems to be able to bother to check, a Labour Leadership challenge is procedurally impossible this side of next year's Party Conference.

No one in the media knows anything about any party other than the Conservatives. Never have, never will.

That includes the Lobby. Indeed, that is the worst of the lot.

Away with it.

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