Without an active press or freedom of speech there is no way to determine who is actually telling the truth and there are few economic disincentives to actually tell the truth.
The proposed law is "capable of decontaminating the poisoned printed matters without restricting freedom of the press, " the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper quoted Aung Kyi as saying when he submitted the bill to Parliament on March 8.
In the end, the OAS meeting adopted a wishy-washy resolution in support of freedom of the press, but without mentioning either Venezuela or the RCTV issue by name.
Hemming, who has campaigned for pressfreedom, used parliamentary privilege which allows parliamentarians to raise controversial legal issues without fear of prosecution to name the player with impunity.
Mr Cameron believes enshrining it in law will harm pressfreedom but Mr Clegg and Mr Miliband insist on it - they say the rules would lack impact without it.