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Andrew Bolt 
Friday, December 14, 2012 (6:46pm)

I know how much pressure newspapers feel under now that the Gillard Government is considering - or threatening - new controls on the media and on media owners.

I know this for a fact, and know this well-understood threat will grow only greater in the election year. I know the names of Labor ministers concerned how free speech is being threatened by more desperate members of the Government.
If you think this all too conspiratorial, consider what has just happened in Britain, where the Daily Telegraph was working on a story on an expenses rort embarrassing to one of the Ministers considering he Government’s response to the Levenson inquiry - Britain’s version of our own Finkelstein witch hunt.
Two calls made by government heavies to the reporter and editor should instantly end any debate on the need to give government more control over the media. 
It should end that debate in Britain and also here.