Quote Originally Posted by Kirkland Laing View Post
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.