Blair Wants To Restrict Freedom Of Speech Via Internet Journalism

By Mick Meaney
RINF Alternative News 

The Telegraph newspaper is suggesting that Tony Blair is hinting towards new restrictions on Internet media.

In a farewell lecture today, Blair said online reporting has become “more pernicious and less balanced” than traditional political reporting. This is complete doublespeak.

Today the Internet allows all of us, as the new RINF blogs demonstrate, that we are no longer restricted to the propaganda fed to us by the mainstream media, now we have the tools to create our own media. This is exactly what we have done.

Our new media is clearly a worry for the government, as we speak out against the injustices and call into question the action and motives of the powers that be, on a truly global basis.

Web sites like this one, and many others, are obviously sending shockwaves through the hierarchy of the global elite.

What Blair is actually saying, he and his cohorts are feeling the pressure as grassroots media report facts, unafraid to tell the truth and cannot be bought or silenced through the same grip of fear they hold over many mainstream media establishments.

Basically, they want to restrict our freedom of speech.

However, Blair openly states that he “contributed” to ‘deteriorating media’ by “spinning” too much in the early days of New Labour.

The only difference here is, we report facts. We don’t need to ‘spin’ as the truth is on our side. And don’t they just know it.

During the lecture Blair said: “It used to be thought - and I include myself in this - that help was on the horizon, new forms of communication would provide new outlets to by-pass the increasingly shrill tenor of the traditional media.

“In fact, the new forms can be even more pernicious, less balanced, more intent on the latest conspiracy theory multiplied by five.

“As the technology blurs the distinction between papers and television, it becomes increasingly irrational to have different systems of accountability based on technology that no longer can be differentiated in the old way,” he said.

”We paid inordinate attention in the early days of New Labour to courting, assuaging, and persuading the media.

”In our own defence, after 18 years of opposition and the, at times, ferocious hostility of parts of the media, it was hard to see any alternative.

”But such an attitude ran the risk of fuelling the trends in communications that I am about to question.

“At present, we are all being dragged down by the way media and public life interact, I do believe this relationship between public life and media is now damaged in a manner that requires repair.

“The damage saps the country’s confidence and self-belief; it undermines its assessment of itself, its institutions; and above all, it reduces our capacity to take the right decisions, in the right spirit for our future.”

The times they are a changing. As alternative media is slowly becoming the mainstream in terms of readership, it is beginning to rival traditional media.

If the government are not happy with our reporting, I suggest they start doing their jobs, work for the benefit of the people who put them in power - instead of destroying our rights, killing innocent people and abusing the power they were granted.

Blair’s comments are nothing short of a sign that we are winning.

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