Ministry of Justice policy of excluding bloggers from press releases
It strikes me as rather odd that the government employs 10 staff to monitor the internet to discover what is being said, when Google Alerts are free!
However, more importantly I feel is the MoJ policy of only giving out press releases to the Mainstream Media, and trying to keep in the dark those in the Fifth Estate, that is, the new media, including blogs.
It may just be that Jailhouselawyer has upset the MoJ with the story about Lord Ahmed, in that I drove a horse and cart through prison security for fellow blogger Old Holborn.
There again, Pete Huntingford of the Press Office at the MoJ has announced to Jailhouselawyer that they have a policy of not speaking to bloggers only journalists. Given that journalists are quite happy to contact Jailhouselawyer for information, one wonders why the MoJ is so shirty? Could it possibly be that I am unlikely to merely accept a press release from them without posing further questions based on inside knowledge?
Could it be that this is a good day to bury bad news behind a smoke screen?
The MoJ, in effect, are saying No comment.
A mixture of law, politics, autobiography and humour. Once described as "The Devilish Advocate" (Guardian), I do have the ability to provoke a response. Sometimes it comes from someone who uses a thought process, and sometimes from jerks usually associated with the knee.
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