tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post2410742828692182298..comments2024-03-26T13:27:26.499+00:00Comments on Zelo Street: Free Press HypocrisyTim Fentonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00726447899972084146noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4433144336299288135.post-26992193542524193762012-03-27T09:39:59.419+01:002012-03-27T09:39:59.419+01:00The Leveson Inquiry goes alongside some serious po...The Leveson Inquiry goes alongside some serious police investigations. These centre around networks of corrupt police officers and others who were accessing large quantities of sensitive information. Some of this was going into the Murdoch's papers but some of it may have been going somewhere else. It looks as if the police are, at long last, taking this very seriously. The Leveson Inquiry is dealing with the media aspect: the fact that Murdoch's papers bought heavily into this corrupt network, so how can freedom of the press rise from the ashes of this mess? <br /><br />The Conservative Party got involved in this mess. Their attempt to say that this was not a story failed. They are now trying to lodge in people's heads the idea that this is a left-wing attack on the freedom of the press (through one of the few good best pieces of investigative journalism for many years!). I think that this week the Sunday Times has tried to show that it too can do investigative journalism (having been a shadow of its former self ever since Murdoch took over). It seems unlikely that the result of the Leveson Inquiry will be that this kind of investigative journalism is put at risk, because Lord Justice Leveson has said explicitly that this is what he wants the media to do. <br /><br /><br />GianoAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com