The Press Complaints Commission asked the lawyer of a bereaved family to draft a letter to editors asking their privacy be respected, the Leveson Inquiry has heard. Giles Crown, the solicitor for the family of Sebastian Bowles, a 11-year-old boy killed in a Swiss coach crash in March this year, gave evidence to the Leveson… Read more »
Meetings between journalists and politicians can be “a potential conspiracy against the public”, the Daily Telegraph political commentator has warned. Peter Oborne told the Leveson Inquiry today meetings between ministers and newspaper moguls can be even more dangerous. In a written statement, he said: “Meetings between journalists and politicians should be viewed as a potential conspiracy against… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart What does it take to get a corporate scandal on to the front pages of the mass-circulation papers? Business, after all, is abstract and dull, and you don’t sell tabloids with abstract and dull. What you need, by and large, is a bogey-man, a human lightning rod for outrage and mockery. Think… Read more »
by Brian Cathcart The Mirror and the Telegraph are reporting that lawyers acting for one of the killers of James Bulger are planning to sue News International because their client’s phone was hacked. Both papers dwell at length on the distress of the murder victim’s family at this reported development – and you can see… Read more »
