Mr. Harry Browne:

There are ways. I grew up in the United States and the American in me is very resistant to ideas of state controls, even though the United States was one of the first countries to introduce subsidies for media and made it much easier to publish and distribute newspapers going back to the late 1700s and 1800s. I support those kinds of things, but on the idea that one would ban this or restrict that, I think I would prefer to see a situation where we are using carrots rather than sticks, where one incentivises non-profit news production, for example, with various kinds of breaks and various kinds of subsidies. We are a long way from having that discussion and obviously this is not exactly the forum for it. I think there are a lot of better ways to run a media system than the one that we have got at the moment.