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Digital Economy Bill [HL]

As someone who is not a professional journalist and has no high regard for them, I think it is of major benefit that the news is not provided by professional journalists. My second reason is that the consortium for the Scottish region had been granted to a consortium made up of the two major newspapers—the Scotsman and the Herald—and one television company. I think there was one other organisation involved. They said that they would use their journalists to provide the local Scottish news on television. I am sorry, but I do not see how the arguments about being balanced, rational and impartial can be followed if the same journalists who write in newspapers, expressing their views, then appear on television, trying to be impartial. It just does not work. Therefore, I am quite happy to see this clause disappear.