Despite all it's claims to "open and candid" debate, toothless old Ofcom still isn't really listening to the public, is it?

It's 1998 all over again. It's high time we had a government that would have the gumption to take some corrective action and put Ofcom back on track.

Pete

How can you restrict free reporting of the local news in any media format =S

4% Revenue loss is just life. Ofcom is overstepping here. Exactly the same issues are posed by the BBC airing on TV. At the end of the day the choice is up to the viewer. The viewer's made a choice to have an impartial media service as well as commercial services. The ends mustn't justify the means.

So let me get this straight. We pay a license fee. The BBC uses this fee to provide "innovative" content. Ofcom then decides that instead of letting them get on with it they should stop them so some private company can rip off the idea and make us pay for something we would have got for free?

Genius. Capitalism just gets better and better.