It is not " Remarkably out of date". But it has been changed in more recent times. The requirement for registration ended only when Mail trains finished as bulk transportation of newspapers qualified for a 2nd class rate.  Satellite printing and distribution changed to road rand that down to almost nothing and the Post Office requirement was evolved in 2007.  This is because Newspapers had already signed up to other bodies to oversee legal and journalistic standards. The NPA and IPSO being the most prominent. The requirement for each edition of a paper to have the registration at the Post Office as a Newspaper to be printed in the very small print only ended recently and replaced with details for IPSO and the Publishers Holding company etc. The code of Conduct remains the same but there are differences between Print Media and Online.  It does not relate purely to libel laws but in reporting standards and procedures, trespass, intrusion and public interest justifications. Ones doe not have to watch or read a paper of a TV channel to support the ethos of free reporting. Nor agree with it. But it is important that journalists as long as properly accredited and trained can ask probing questions and can investigate without hindrance. Hence my support for Brentford TV who is at least doing something where others have failed or faded away. Newspaper/Media owners are a different issue.  And you are right, very poorly paid for what is a vocational job and often a dangerous one, even on local papers. I thought the Dimbleby Papers were as dull as dishwater, but others were not. What is sad is that we and democracy are far worse off without good quality local papers and those well trained people who produced them every week.

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Topic	Date Posted	Posted By
John Dale suspension and Meta	05/06/25 14:28:00	Jeremy Parkinson
Reply	05/06/25 17:27:00	Ben Halloren
Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	05/06/25 21:39:00	Anne England
Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	06/06/25 10:33:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	06/06/25 14:56:00	Jeremy Parkinson
Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	06/06/25 18:22:00	Guy Lambert
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	10/06/25 10:42:00	Keith Iddon
Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	12/06/25 09:39:00	Raymond Havelock
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	13/06/25 09:14:00	Jeremy Parkinson
Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	10/06/25 09:16:00	Anne England
Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	10/06/25 11:11:00	Steve Bullman
Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	10/06/25 12:05:00	Paul Fisher
Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:John Dale suspension and Meta	10/06/25 12:12:00	Steve Bullman
Brentford Today and TV	12/06/25 18:02:00	Joan Adamson
Re:Brentford Today and TV	12/06/25 18:12:00	Joan Adamson
Now who would do that?	13/06/25 12:26:00	Anne England
Re:Now who would do that?	13/06/25 17:25:00	Eric Baker
Re:Re:Now who would do that?	13/06/25 22:55:00	Guy Lambert

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