Media Regulation "A Typical British Fudge"

British press watchdog Sir Christopher Meyer thinks his country's media regulatory landscape is "pretty wierd" and a "typical British fudge."

"You have got (Meyer's Press Complaints Commission [1]) doing what it is doing, we are right up against the frontier with (the Office of Communications [2]) now as we do video. Then you have Ofcom, then you have the Advertising Standards Authority [3] and you have got the BBC Trust," Meyer told the House of Lords communications committee, the Guardian reports.

Meyer is looking for rationalization. Others are looking for something entirely different.

Former Downing Street communications chief Alastair Campbell told the Lords committee that Meyer's watchdog froup was "pretty useless" and "out of date".

"It's for the press and by the press," he said. "The media world has changed so fast and is changing so quickly that it is just out of date."

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