Lord Leveson

Why doesn’t Leveson pass Cameron’s “bonkers” test? And would Ofcom really be a “flawed” backstop?

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on December 1, 2012, 8:30 am

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[David Cameron to Andrew Marr] “We must wait for what Lord Leveson says … I don’t want to pre-judge it. We don’t want heavy-handed state intervention. We’ve got to have a free press.” Backing up with legislation the self regulation of an industry that has consistently failed to be harsh to itself hardly qualifies as failing Cameron’s “bonkers” test. Labour – from the advantage of Opposition – are asking for the Leveson recommendations to be implemented in full. Ed Miliband: …

Leveson report: the self-regulation carrot with the legislative stick

Alan Meban (Alan in Belfast) on November 29, 2012, 4:59 pm

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It may be some time before Slugger posters finish reading the 1988 pages of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into his Inquiry into the Culture, Practices and Ethics of the Press. So here’s a short post in the meantime! [48 page Executive Summary; four volume full report] He said that the press had “wreaked havoc in the lives of innocent people” for many decades and called their behaviour (at times) “outrageous”. The report’s executive summary comments: Phone hacking is most decidedly …

Morgan’s line on #Hacking is less than convincing…

Mick Fealty on December 21, 2011, 12:26 pm

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Quote of the day has to be this opener from Guido: It’s an interesting contribution, not least after Piers Morgan’s assertion he knew nothing about phone hacking at the Daily Mirror. As the Sabotage Times notes: …while he could offer up an explanation of how to hack a phone he struggled to remember who had told him how to do it. And a former financial journalist on the paper, James Hipwell, has told inquiry and reported by the Daily …

Why not appoint a Scottish judge to investigate Murdochgate?

Mick Fealty on July 25, 2011, 11:24 am

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Fascinating and thoughtful analysis from Lallands Peat Worrier on the subject of …the issue is one of the objective appearance of impartiality, which is clearly potentially compromised when the judge moves in the social milieu as the journalists, executives and officers they are examining. On twitter and in a comment after an article by David Allen Green at the beginning of July, I asked – why not appoint a Scottish judge to lead the inquiry? This wasn’t intended as rank …