Here's a fascinating bit of Orwellian rhetoric from Britain, where regulators are considering whether to allow Fox News to remain on the air. A bloke from the "Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom," says freedom of expression will be threatened if the Fox News Channel isn't banned - although, of course, he's "not in favour of censorship." I'm not making this up.

Julian Petley, the chairman of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, called on the commission to act against Fox News.

"The commission has set a precedent by revoking Med TV's licence, so I don't see how it can't have Fox taken off [Sky] as well.

"I'm not in favour of censorship but Murdoch would like to do with British television news what he has done with newspapers, which is to force people to compete on his own terms.

"So if we allow into Britain the kind of journalism represented by Fox, that would bring about a form of censorship by narrowing the range of views and a coarsening of the level of debate."

If that's not enough to send your irony detector into the stratosphere, the Guardian also supports forcing Fox off the air. "We don't want biased news over here," reads the editorial.

I have to lie down for a while.