tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post1228303151580308004..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Leveson Is Served (42)Tim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-80167325171245059712013-03-09T15:56:18.851+00:002013-03-09T15:56:18.851+00:00One aspect of this that needs to be brought in to ...One aspect of this that needs to be brought in to the open is that the new body will, through the royal charter, be subject to the government of the day.<br /><br />So it is even more ill-liberal than the proposals in Leveson. And yet Jenkins, who wrote in the Guardian that Leveson and his supporters had seemingly "adopted Sharia law", is implementing something far worse while gobbling up his expenses like the loyal establishment lap dog he is.<br /><br />The real point of agreement behind the press barons and the government is the expunging from the proposals any notion of public redress or access to the media. Public access would improve freedom of speech because it would open up the papers to debate and challenge. <br /><br />As long as the public is out of the way the proprietors and editors are happy to sell their freedoms to the Tories. <br /><br />Where are the establishment windbags such as Nelson, Lawson, the Telegraph editors, even the loyal staffers at Press Gazette? Any murmur of opposition. Er no. <br /><br />The press barons and Tories have reduced the freedom of the press and freedom of speech to the narrow concern of the commercial freedom to make money (K Marx).keithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05551343571066684884noreply@blogger.com