http://www.anorak.co.uk/341328/news/leveson-report-should-we-ignore-lorrsine-kelly-and-back-the-hacked-off-campaign.html/ Tabloid news for broadsheet readers Thu, 13 Jun 2013 14:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.anorak.co.uk/341328/news/leveson-report-should-we-ignore-lorrsine-kelly-and-back-the-hacked-off-campaign.html/comment-page-1/#comment-475438 Emma Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:25:52 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/?p=341328#comment-475438 The scaremongering is truly ridiculous. The proposals are workable and write a protection for free speech and freedom of the press into statute. Moreover, they are not that different from Finland which scores very highly on press freedom but has a regulatory body underpinned by law.
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We have a chance to decide just what type of press we are prepared to put up with. The current state of affairs is not a ‘free press’, it is an unaccountable one totally in the grip of powerful individuals who have shown through their corrupt lobbying that far from calling power to account, they rather blackmail and bribe that power.
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Free speech is the most important aspect of a functioning democracy but that freedom should not only be in the hands of a rich few.

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