The Prime Minister has met newspaper editors and told them to act quickly to set up a new press regulator following the release of the Leveson report.
Daily Telegraph editor Tony Gallagher tweeted that the meeting “felt like the summoning of the Five Families”, let’s hope the press make an offer the PM and public can’t refuse.
A new regulator will be put in place but it all comes down how the gap will be bridged between those who say we should follow all Leveson’s recommendations including legal underpinning and those who believe that is a step too far and compromises press freedom.
Either way it needs to be done quickly, editor of The Independent Chris Blackhurst said “if it takes too long we will get statute”.
Instead of having all these meetings and discussions and proposals for potentially doing things this way or that way, why not just implement the changes suggested by the Leveson report.
If draft legislation is already being worked on fine tune that, because all you’re going to get from the editors is we can’t have legal underpinning that means state controlled press we prefer an alternative that we like.
Put in place the recommended changes otherwise Leveson’s whole report and investigation will be a redundant costly waste of time and money.
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