A Royal
Charter aimed at underpinning self-regulation of the press has been published
by the government.
Culture Secretary Maria Miller said the deal would safeguard the freedom
of the press and the future of local papers.
But the industry said the proposals could neither be described as
"voluntary or independent".
It’s no surprises
that the press has rejected this latest attempt at reaching an agreement on regulation and seemingly
won’t accept anything other than being allowed to go back to doing what they
were before the Leveson inquiry.
It amazes
me how the press still think they are the ones who should set-up their own
regulatory system and that there in a really strong position to negotiate, when
time after time after time they’ve shown they can’t be trusted to do it.
And what
really annoys me the most is the line they all use if this is passed it will be
the end of a free press in Britain which is complete and utter bollocks, it won’t,
however, it will mean that those in the press won’t be able to do what they
want whenever they want and expect to get away with it.
I hope
this issue is resolved soon and both sides can agree on a regulatory system
because it’s been almost a year now since Leveson made his recommendations and
there has been zero progress, and I’m frankly sick of it all.
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