Originally Posted by
Kirkland Laing
Originally Posted by
Greenbeanz
Originally Posted by
Kirkland Laing
They shouldn't be allowed to restrain the press in any qway. The government restricts so much information already that anything that does get out is worth any price in terms of press intrusion etc. My only complaint about the press is that they hacked the phones of a bunch of fucking celebrities. They should have hacked some consequential people instead.
So you are quite happy with a society in which murder victims phones are hacked? A system of self regulation in which an innocent person can be presumed guilty of murder and painted as such by a hungry media eager to fulfill the baying hounds bloodlust ? You seem to be arguing for the continuation of the status quo in which the government serves not the public but the media barons who dictate their own agenda. This is not about preventing the investigation of governments , powerful individuals and organisations it is about not harassing bereaved relatives.
Have some sort of compensation ystem where anything like that means massive fines and money paid to the family by the paper, but don't stop the papers from shining light where the authorities don't want it. If they allow this commission it'll neuter the press worse than it already is. Not good for democracy at all. Dragging murder victims into it just help the powerful get what they want, which is a muzzle for the press.
I thought you were in the business of knowing what is right ? You sound like a spin doctor for a politician or a patsy for some big media baron. "Muzzle for the Press" ? Nobody is suggesting for one moment that the press should not be able to be exhaustive in its research of and vociferous in it's opposition to Government or Politicians. Your telling phrase
"Dragging murder victims into it" suggests you have no interest in the issue and have read or even watched nothing about it, within this thread or anywhere else. The inquiry itself was started in part by the illegal hacking of the voicemail of school girl murder victim Millie Dowler a process which led her distraught Mother to believe she was still alive because her voicemail had been accessed. The press have continued to behave unethically and because of it's easy access to top lawyers, Illegally and this has left innocent victims little redress. The suggestion that a body other than it's own editors can call it to account on such occasions with fines and threats of legal redress seems perfectly sane and one wonders what those who use "muzzle the Press" arguments have to hide and lose in such situations.
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