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Should the press be regulated?
With the Leveson report recommending a tougher form of self-regulation backed by legislation with "statutory underpinning", what do people think?
I don't think it should. We've had a free press for over 300 years and either it stays that way or it has to act within parameters set by the state, and it's basically no longer free. I know that what the NOTW did was terrible but the phone hacking was already illegal, the problem was more with the law enforcement not a lack of regulation. A free press is needed in any democracy and any regulation at all threatens that, I think people have underestimated how important it is
Last edited by In the Drunk Tank; 29-11-2012 at 03:14 PM.
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29-11-2012, 03:14 PM
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