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Why 'Dacre cards' are not the answer

Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre appears to believe that a new system of press cards will help to transform the regulation of journalistic behaviour.

I liked what James Ball had to say about it:


In somewhat similar, if less trenchant mode, I have said something similar in my London Evening Standard column today.

Like James, I am worried about excluding the growing legions of people who engage in "acts of journalism" on the net.

A system of accreditation is one remove from licensing and would amount to the imposition of a closed shop.

But my main objection is that it misses the point about ethical misbehaviour by the journalistic troops. They operate at the behest of editors. Dacre cards will not solve that problem.

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