A former chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has told the Leveson Inquiry the body “was never a regulator”. Lord Wakeham, who headed the body from 1995 to 2001, said today his job was to try and raise press standards. He told the inquiry the industry wanted a chairman “with a bit of clout” and… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart What lies behind the Daily Mail’s assault on Hugh Grant? Could it be conventional piety? Hardly: have you looked at Mail Online lately? It is an artful mix of soft porn and celebrity gossip of the kind which, just a few years ago, the Mail itself would have dismissed as morally corrosive…. Read more »
Christopher Jefferies was one of the many victims of privacy intrusion by the press. Following his arrest in connection to Joanna Yeates’ murder, from which he was released without charge, Mr Jefferies saw his life exposed, facts twisted and a string of baseless accusations splashed all over the front pages of the tabloid press in… Read more »
