Department of the Free Press

I think Liberal Conspiracy should drop the “liberal” bit if they keep publishing tommyrot of this sort:

I’ve never understood why we allow our print media to support a particular political viewpoint. Why is it that just before an election, our media line up in their separate camps and decide to tell us who to vote for? If there is a point of law I’m unaware of, perhaps someone will enlighten me, but just how is it in the public interest to seek to influence the outcome of general elections? Why do we need them to tell us what to do?

Mark my words, we’ll be hearing more of this kind of guff from other, more elevated places than Sunny’s mob. Indeed, Gordon Brown’s suggestion last night that the press must be “responsible” stems from the same controlling instinct.

[Hat-tip: Mr Worstall]