Monday, October 24, 2011

News of the World: A newspaper is gone, but an inquiry is as urgent as ever

5:57 AM | Posted by Free Game Zone | Edit Post

must be a public inquiry into the culture of the tabloids, police corruption and the failure of self

So Farewell, World News. Squidgygate and Camillagate remember, buying cookies ("blood money"), issues a "kiss and sell" the celebrity hacks and more recently, piracy telephone. The drafters were "drink the last chance" for 30 years, which should enter the record books as the longest in the history of waste.

was confronted with the helplessness of the Press Council, replaced by the value the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Nothing has changed since he was convicted for publishing topless pictures of Diana in a private beach, including the trial, the paper responded by publishing them under the title "This is what the line is the people. "

The New World has shown that when the movement was less lethal challenge, self-regulation was bound to fail to instill a sense of ethics, or respect for the criminal law in the business information and entertainment tabloid. This is partly because we are a society too obscene, addicted to schadenfreude Sunday morning we read the sorrows of others and adultery. But it is also the prerogative of the prostitute by the time of power without responsibility, has intimidated most democratic institutions must comply with the decency and the rule of law.

For all self-righteousness on display in parliament, parliamentarians headed by the Prime Minister totally erroneous assumption that there should be no public inquiry until the police investigations had run their course. At this time - years in the future, but Scotland Yard admitted yesterday, surrounded by 11 000 pages, 4000 names (and only for 2006) - memories have faded, and News International will own BSkyB

is exactly the situation that the Inquiries Act 2005 was enacted to avoid. It allows a quick and authoritative a source of scandal and concern to allay public concerns and to ensure that the scandal does not happen again. This investigation does not prejudge the tests - which has no power to determine civil or criminal liability of any person. However, the president has the power to require production of documents and insist that anyone - including Rupert Murdoch - to attend a public examination. This power can be applied by the High Court, on pain of criminal sanction. This research is established by resolution of both Houses of Parliament to discuss a "matter of urgent public importance."
  • urgent, less urgent was not by the closing of the newspaper. Not only are those identified by the Prime Minister that the ineptitude of the original police investigation. There should be a review of the culture, tabloid corruption and corruption that has elapsed between journalists and police sources, the total failure of the car (and how to replace), inadequate training of journalists in Law and ethics (most had no idea that phone hacking was banned in 1998 and still considered payment to the police as "inappropriate", when in fact they are seriously criminal).
  • Commissions real
  • in the previous release - the last report in 1975 - has made some useful reforms, in particular by the introduction of standards for protection against monopolies (scandalously ignored by John Biffen when Murdoch took over the Times and Sunday Times) and proof of "suitability" of holders. This is a test of what a public inquiry would be much better prepared to meet Jeremy Hunt, a trial judge of his party.
There can be no excuse for the delay, other than the fear of international news (and, to be fair, the company said it would support a public inquiry). In addition, police investigations in this area were not very competent or global, witnesses and suspects do not have to answer questions, there will be no attempt to reach the truth about ethical standards. The police are very bad in the police investigation, whose relations with the leaders of the media should be put under the microscope. In these sensitive issues and policies, Britain was still in the police Dogberry - United States, the process would be conducted more efficiently by special prosecutors, and judges in Europe

Therefore, a public consultation under the 2005 law established in the coming days with a clear summary (which should include BSkyB) and report back within six to nine months is reasonable. David Cameron is right to avoid a judge - which should be kept out of politics. Luckily, two lawyers who have contributed meaningfully in the intellectual debate on press freedom - Lord Hoffmann and Sir Stephen Sedley - have recently retired, and may be available to chair



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