Ian Hislop on press regulation - Have I Got News for You: Series 46 Episode 2 - BBC One 

How do you loathe Ian Hislop? He's one of the best journalists in the country. He answers to no one and doesn't dance to anyone's tune. If only there were more like him.

@@petergreen2552 The BBC or the British b******* corporation as I like to call them want to have Question Time with the likes of Tommy Robinson Dr John Cooper Clarke,Will Self, Stephen Fry, Ben Elton or anybody with half a brain asking these trumped up MPs and other arse kissing yes men and jobsworths the true and hard hitting questions that we all want answers to, not these rehearsed polished sanguine spurious questions that get patted about on this ridiculous show. That is presided over by Fiona Bruce who sits there as wet as an otter's pocket just dreaming about the massive salary she walks away with every year just for being a smug little c***.

when someone involved in politics not being a coward is considered exceptional, you just know we are a failed country

Oh, he does dance to other peoples tunes, with Peter Mandelson.

@@douglasparkinson4123 he's a journalist not a politician lol

Nailed it. So many people wanting to see the more disagreeable papers removed from the shelves when the best way to do it is to simply ignore it once they get to the shops in the first place.

This applies to a lot of Things

Well if the public stopped buying the S*n after all the lies it printed post Hillsborough,that disgusting publication wouldn't be on the shelves today. Who would miss it?

@@petergreen2552 Totally agree. IMO, most of those who take a prurient interest in public figures' private lives and thinks it has no ill effect should have a good look at themselves in the mirror. All those who cried and put fluffy toys down for "Lady Diana" probably bought the rags that paid the wages of the howling mob she was trying to escape in the end. Harmless fun though isn't it

Something about the different uses of 'don't' in this sentence makes it lose some impact, which is a shame. I'm sure there's a word for it but I'm not a linguist.

I appreciate this is an old comment but it's still true today. In fact these days Hislop is the only one on the BBC I trust to tell things straight!

I love Ian Hislop x

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I agree.

Mark Steel is a vile Corbynista who thinks anyone on benefits is the noble poor, rather than acknowledging there are scroungers and fraudsters out there - not all, but some, and they should be cracked down on.

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze Benefits fraud is essentially non-existent, it's a lie so the rich can demonise the poor.

@JPEG is Bald lol You must be to the right of Mussolini if you think New Labour was "far left".

@JPEG is Bald lol Nope. Try again

No one was ever suggesting banning these papers. Just punishing them when they told lies or hacked dead children's phones.

@@WilliamSmith-mx6ze Libel laws are a tool of the rich. They ensure that only billionaires can afford to own newspapers.

I agree but if people didn't buy the guttersnot then the Aussie peddler of pulp fiction wouldn't be a billionaire...

@@zapfanzapfan Sadly, they keep buying it because it says what they want to hear.

What is that argument then? I should love to hear it. Given people with tuppence to run together can't afford to buy newspapers, who would you have own them?

Have you learnt nothing from history? The government controlling the press = fascism.

not necessary, it could be communism as well My point is ignoring the problem only allows it to grow & by the time you tried to stop it, it's too late, like a parasite, it has already taken control, you can't do anything about it.. All the better to kill it off now before it gets to that stage.. & sadly, if sacrificing freedom of the press means shutting down poison papers & putting lying journalists in jail, I'd say that's a price worth paying, provided that we do not go so far over-board as to punish people for simple having an opinion. That might sound rather contradictory, but if you really think about it, there's nothing extreme about wanting lairs punished for their lies.. Is there?

@@ellibod1 It's the lesser evil. By far. We already have a very heavily regulated press, especially with regard to broadcast news. And libel laws. Then you're a fascist. You can't put lying journalists in jail because that means the state get to decide what truth is. Truth is hugely subjective. Even in hard science, truth and fact is under constant dispute. The problem with the press is that it's monopolised by the rich. And libel laws make it even worse, because they mean if you set up a small newspaper, you can be sued out of existence with ease. The way to maintain a diverse and free press is to allow press freedom but control the economics of it, don't allow monopolies.

I think that's a good point. As much as I agree with Hislop that "don't buy it" is a good individualist response, you'd be hard pressed to claim that the Murdoch empire isn't huge in impact and, in effect, actively harms the "free press".

TheValeyard92 While you make a good point, it's still very funny, so I'm glad it's in there

No, that's the S*n

The internet has made all papers irrelevant to me. I only trust the massively diverse yet somehow unifying voice of the internet

that's very inclusive and liberal of you Jack

@@matthewhutchinson7538 It's still a tabloid.

I know this is a very late comment but his name is Dan Snow- he is a historian

“Cancel culture” (which has literally always been a thing, it’s not more prevalent now - only the right’s whining about it is) is exactly what Hislop is telling people to engage in here: don’t buy something or don’t watch something etc because you disagree with it morally/politically. Literally “cancel culture” lol.

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The BBC allows these dissenting voices mostly in the comedy section though, so as not to allow it to be taken too seriously. Hislop isn’t the poster boy when it comes to actual news stories where the government should be held to account, because they don’t want to hold the government to account.

Out of curiosity if nothing else, can you cite your sources for that claim? can you provide any links to publications or videos where he makes that specific claim?

When on earth did he say that?

@@clarkpatient7950 He didn't. He just made it up because Hislop kept talking about how Brexit was a mistake after the vote & everyone who wanted Brexit got very upset that they were pointing out how it made pretty much every area of British society worse.

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