“You can’t have one law for members of a club and another
for non-members,” a senior executive of a newspaper group is quoted as saying,
in connection with the proposed new press regulatory regime, whereby
publications that decline to be regulated will be subject, in some instances,
to harsher conditions than those who join.
(I simplify, of course.)
Funny, I thought the whole point of joining a club was to
gain some benefit. What else is a Tesco
Clubcard for? (From the holder’s point
of view, of course – I’m sure Tesco’s get something out of it too.) And I wouldn’t expect to be able to just swan
into Boodles and help myself to the port without having joined. But then journalists do tend, like Humpty
Dumpty, to use words to suit their own purposes, don’t they?
It rather reminds me of an elderly relative of mine who
regularly complains about being referred to some website, because “I’m not on
the bloody internet!” The suggestion
that this could easily be remedied simply by joining up is met with no more
than a shake of the head.
Going clubbing is something else again, isn't it? Not that I've ever done such a thing, obv.
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