UK Labour Party wants journalism licenses, will prohibit “journalism” by people who are “struck off” the register of licensed journalists

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UK Labour Party wants journalism licenses, will prohibit “journalism” by people who are “struck off” the register of licensed journalists

The UK Labour party’s conference is underway in Liverpool, and party bigwigs are presenting their proposals for reinvigorating Labour after its crushing defeat in the last election. The stupi…

via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/09/27/uk-labour-party-wants-journalism-licenses-will-prohibit-journalism-by-people-who-are-struck-off-the-register-of-licensed-journalists.html

Given that “journalism” presently encompasses “publishing accounts of things you’ve seen using the Internet” and “taking pictures of stuff and tweeting them” and “blogging” and “commenting on news stories,” this proposal is even more insane than the tradition “journalist licenses” practiced in totalitarian nations.