Freedom of Press in Europe?

[Monk]

Hi VetLegion,

As for "freedom of press in Europe", there's a hell of a difference between various nations and their approach to most things so I'd be careful about applying whatever British/French/Bulgarian trends you hear about to Europe as a whole. Unless of course it's meant to reanimate the U.S vs. Europe nonsense that pops up occasionally.

In Britain, it seems the royals get some kind of say on what the papers print which is horrific to say the least but I can't imagine the queen has more than a formal right to censor the newspapers (if she does, somebody tell me right away) and as for the elite running the show, I think it's safe to say that's a worldwide phenomonen.

Germany doesn't have a royal family but the old traumas about Jews and WWII causes them to limit their freedom of speech and generally freak out every time somebody says something that doesn't fit the established view. So Nazi merchandise and stuff goes through places like Denmark, a country that has a law prohibiting racist speech in public but offers state support for the Nazi-driven radio station. Etc. etc.

[VetLegion]

Originally posted by Gangerolf
the newpapers are afraid of being prosecuted. Le Monde wasn't confiscated, they pulped the 7000 papers ment for the UK themselves

True. I did mislead, but it wasn't intentional, I quoted a local paper.

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by VetLegion
I was hoping for responses from educated european masses and all I get is thanks from paiktis

Spaciba!!!! C'meon how's thank you in serbocroatian? I want to know and thank you It's funny.

Anyway, and I am not saying this for the North Sea oil, is it time to free the British people of their oppressive regime? Is it time to end this tyrany?

It's coming.

[VetLegion]

Monk,

I don't think it is the Queen, the Courts seem to have power to stop papers from damaging the image of the Royalty, or so I gather.

[VetLegion]

paiktis,

"Çok tesekkur ederim", works every time

[Bereta_Eder]

Originally posted by VetLegion
paiktis,

"Çok tesekkur ederim", works every time

Yoho there my croatian struggling to rid yourself of your fascism/nationalinism and a decade of warfare pissing eachother and good luck, this sounds turkish and a bad word . What does HVALAhvahlah vahm mean then?

[Gangerolf]

Well a judge found the piece libellous. No wonder, considering it's about a mentally troubled former servant claiming the prince is homo-gay and whatnot.

[VetLegion]

You just gave me an Idea! I think Turkish would be a great lingua franca for Balkans, after all, it was official in some countries for 400 years

Should I submit the proposal to EU?

[Sandman]

1. The story has 'come out' now.

2. This is Britain. Where one of the state television channels has its own Gestapo.

[Bereta_Eder]

Go ahead Although noone speaks turkish in greece. dont know about croatia, maybe

[VetLegion]

Newspaper aren't guilty if they simply transmit the story, weather it is true or false or whatever. At least I think so.

paiktis: In Croatian thank you is Hvala.

[Bereta_Eder]

Aaaaahhhhh HVALA. serbo croatian though isnt it?
i say patato you say patato? c'meon you'll have to live together after all and you have the same langauge. WAAAAARM to eachother

Hvala, loipon gia to oraio thema sou (for your nice thread)

[VetLegion]

You are a master of the editing paiktis

And I thought to lay down arms...

Do you need phrases for "is the customer happy" and "come again please?"

[Evil Knevil]

We don't have any formal censorship system for printed material. old obscenity laws and so on have been completely abolished, thankfully.

Injunctions can be filed to stop an item going to print if a Judge considers it slanderous and a complaint is filed. It may or may not be the case that the Judge was sympathetic and biased to the Royal case. However they have no direct powers over them.

Of course the Government of the day can put pressure on the Newspapers/TV, but not 'legally' i/e using the law system. They can threaten reporters with libel, or denounce them in Parliament or refuse to deal with their agency, all of which I've seen in the business

Otherwise it's the conscience of private companies which is often sell-restricting/censoring. Some regional branches of the huge company WH-Smiths refuse to stock such shocking materials as FHM and Private Eye :x

[VetLegion]

Btw., there is no use discussing it, Greek school of Turkish is the oldest in the Balkans, and probably the best. All that testing.