Statutory regulation will make newspapers obedient
Putting newspapers under statutory regulation will do nothing other than make them, eventually, obedient to the government of the day.
Claim made in a Daily Telegraph editorial:

"He [the PM] cannot be so naive as to imagine that putting newspapers under statutory regulation will do anything other than make them, eventually, obedient to the government of the day,"
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Public Life and the Media »Public Life and the Media
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Revise the media regulatory framework »Revise the media regulatory framework
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Statutory regulation will make newspapers obedient
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