JerryChicken wrote: ... whatever the hell Leveson was supposed to achieve it clearly has achieved nothing for newspapers are still obviously obtaining and publishing information from within what are supposed to be confidential files ...
Nobody's signed up to anything yet and certain elements of the media are still whinging away about 'free speech' and 'freedom of the press' as they try to cling to self-regulation, with Paul Dacre in charge.
Substantial elements of the press is not remotely interested in any form of regulation – just see what happened in the post-Leveson case of Lucy Meadows, not just before her death, when she was 'outed' with absolutely no public interest justification, but since too, when certain elements quite deliberately misgendered her in their reports.
Only today the
Mail is reporting on criticisms of Gwyneth Paltrow helping market overtly sexualised bikinis for tots – a publication that, in its online form, profits from quite deliberately sexualising underage girls. The sheer brass neck of it is astonishing.
And huge swathes of the population have a responsibility to bear in all this. If they were really so offended by the behaviour of the tabloids in particular, they'd stop buying the rags in question.
