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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Judging by the widespread scaremongering you would think that implementing the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry was going to plunge us into a Nineteen Eighty-Four style nightmare future of enforced conformity. Unsurprisingly the opposition to improved press regulation has been largely generated by sections of the press itself and backed by politicians who are still seduced by the influence over the voting masses held by the corporate power-brokers like Murdoch. When they talk about protecting the freedom of the press, what they are actually worried about is protecting the press freedom to continue with the lies and the corruption without challenge. After everything we know they have been up to (and the revelations continue go on and on) this is something it is incredibly important to stop happening again in the future, once the memories of the wrong-doings fade and seem less important (which of course they will).
If it can be pulled together this proposed deal sounds sensible and right. The press will be regulated by an independent body. This body is there to ensure that the press adhere to the law and to the agreed charter, which the press should be largely responsible for drawing up themselves. The process will not involve politicians at all but crucially the regulatory body will be ultimately accountable to parliament if it is not doing its job. There is no real danger to free speech, thoughts or opinions. Boundaries can still be pushed and excellent investigative journalism will not be restricted. The press will be able to do and say whatever they like as long as they stay within the law and their self-imposed standards of behaviour. In other words, they finally have to take responsibility for their actions, just like the rest of us. |
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After being on the end of press infringement, my thoughts are the press has had it's chance to clean house and failed. All the MP's as sold us out, royal charters will not work. The law is there to protect us and punish the guilty. All I think of is Milly Dowler and my blood boils.  |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The price we pay for not having state controlled media is occasional infringements of civil liberties and/or intrusion into our private lives. I'm not saying it's acceptable but it is inevitable. My gut feeling is that asking the press to regulate themselves is akin to asking a heroine addict not to take heroine and then leaving him alone in a room full of it. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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During the lead up to the result of the Leverson enquiry All I hear was the mcGanns this the Mcganns that......Can someone please explain to me how they havn't been charged with Child neglect ??? |
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"During the lead up to the result of the Leverson enquiry All I hear was the mcGanns this the Mcganns that......Can someone please explain to me how they havn't been charged with Child neglect ???"
why dont you write to them..?
or the DPP if you have any actual evidence..
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By (user no longer on site)
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Freedom of the press is something that should be guarded carefully so as to stop manipulation by politicians through legislation
But it should be made considerably easier and cheaper for people subjected to unfair press intrusion to get redress and for the press
However, the British public also needs to take some responsibility and stop being so concerned about celebrities and their private lives - I have no interest whatsoever in which celeb is fucking which other celeb, or the fact that someone's waistline has expanded by an inch or so
By not being concerned by this trivia we stop the demand for paparazzi and underhand surveillance. Unfortunately, I somehow doubt the British public will quell their desire to be fed such inane stories and celebrities. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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The press as such see a little bit of power being eroded. Sadly a minority of papers and journalists fucked it up for the majority of good ones.
Personally it should be enshrined in law simply because as its currently voluntary the risk of say a million quid fine for such large organisations is not massive and not that big.
The new regulator has no legal powers to close a newspaper and if as i suspect not many papers will sign up to what mps agreed makes it pointless so if the code is in law that all papers must adhere to it then thats got to better than having to make it legallly binding later.
The bit about freedom of speech is not affected as long the press report truth and facts. I think they want it all own way. Self regulation was already in place and was not adhered to so why will they do it now. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"During the lead up to the result of the Leverson enquiry All I hear was the mcGanns this the Mcganns that......Can someone please explain to me how they havn't been charged with Child neglect ???"
That's the advantage of being middle class. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"During the lead up to the result of the Leverson enquiry All I hear was the mcGanns this the Mcganns that......Can someone please explain to me how they havn't been charged with Child neglect ???
why dont you write to them..?
or the DPP if you have any actual evidence..
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I thought it was a fact, that on the evening Madeline disappeared that "The Maganns" had gone out for a meal, leaving her and the other children in their apartment.....Without taking advantage of the baby sitting service that the apartment organisers provided. |
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By *nnyMan
over a year ago
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"During the lead up to the result of the Leverson enquiry All I hear was the mcGanns this the Mcganns that......Can someone please explain to me how they havn't been charged with Child neglect ???
why dont you write to them..?
or the DPP if you have any actual evidence..
I thought it was a fact, that on the evening Madeline disappeared that "The Maganns" had gone out for a meal, leaving her and the other children in their apartment.....Without taking advantage of the baby sitting service that the apartment organisers provided. "
Going for a meal in Portugal seems to be OK. Going to the bingo in the UK wouldn't be acceptable. |
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