The readers' editor on… Parliament and the press

The revelations at the Leveson inquiry are making further controls on newspapers highly probableIs it time for the British press to admit that its traditional resistance to parliamentary intervention has had its day? Lord Justice Leveson's view last week that some degree of statutory legislation might be necessary to ensure the effectiveness of any future system of self-regulation found an echo a...
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Is it time for the British press to admit that its traditional resistance to parliamentary intervention has had its day? Lord Justice Leveson's view last week that some degree of statutory legislation might be necessary to ensure the effectiveness of any future system of self-regulation found an echo across the North Sea in Denmark, where the Organization of News Ombudsmen, an international gathering of readers' editors, met to discuss the phone hacking scandal.

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