Should political parties be permitted to produce election material that resembles a local newspaper? That question has been thrown to the fore in this current general election after it has emerged that all three of the main parties attempting to win the December 12 poll have been producing partisan free-sheets that appear to ape or at least resemble existing local publications. Has the time now come, the newspaper industry is asking, for such practices to be banned completely, especially when an election is underway?
