We know that it was the ‘rightwing Press’ that was opposed to press regulation by politicians…we know because we are bombarded with such messages from the likes of Alistair Campbell and ‘Hacked Off’ voicing off on the BBC…..the BBC doesn’t attempt to discourage that view.
As far as I know only the Independent has come out in favour of the new regulations to date.
The Guardian seems to be fence sitting at present but was reported to be also opposed.
What we can say for sure is that the very left wing New Statesman is opposed:
‘The New Statesman, which has an ever-growing website and digital presence, currently does not see its interests served by regulation designed to suit politicians, nor by a revanche regime cooked up for the comfort of newspaper barons. Until a better plan is put forward we reserve our right to continue publishing “news-related material” in print and online without deference to either of those parties.’
We can also see that in the lefty Mirror, as noted in the last post, Brian Reade expressed his disgust:
‘The midnight oil was being burned in the Labour leader’s office.
Why?
So the party’s top brass could collude with Hugh Grant’s chums in finding a way to further protect the privacy of the famous and powerful by shackling a Press which already works under some of the most stringent laws in the free world.
A Press so heavily monitored, a pregnant woman journalist has just been frog-marched out of her bed at dawn to help police with their inquiries into an allegation which dates back almost a decade.
All in all comrades, I don’t ever recall feeling so proud of your brave efforts to ensure freedom and equality, as I do right now.
Take a bow.’
Time for the BBC to reflect such evident truth more openly…there is one more surprisng admission, again from the New Statesman in the form of Mehdi Hasan who reveals something that must be of great discomfort to the BBC...Muslims can be racist, it’s not just ‘The Whites’ or the Israelis….again perhaps time for the BBC to reflect such truths…that people with brown skin or different culture can be equally disposed towards racist attitudes as any BNP member…….
‘It pains me to have to admit this but anti-Semitism isn’t just tolerated in some sections of the British Muslim community; it’s routine and commonplace. Any Muslims reading this article – if they are honest with themselves – will know instantly what I am referring to. It’s our dirty little secret. You could call it the banality of Muslim anti-Semitism.
In 2011 Baroness Warsi, the then Conservative Party chairman, said that Islamophobia has “passed the dinner-table test” in polite British society. I agree with her, but what she omitted to mention, and what we Muslims must now admit, is that anti-Semitism passed the dinner-table test in polite British Muslim society long ago.
“It is sheer hypocrisy for Muslims to complain of Islamophobia in every nook and cranny of British public life, to denounce the newspapers for running Muslim-baiting headlines, and yet ignore the rampant anti-Semitism in our own backyard. We cannot credibly fight Islamophobia while making excuses for Judaeophobia.”‘
The Independent, where Hacked Off co-founder, Brian Cathcart, used to be a journalist. He wrote this one article about Levenson showing the need for press regulation….
‘the Press Complaints Commission, as presently constituted, is not up to the job.’
OK, I’m going #2wrongs here, but is he seriously going to claim The BBC Trust, or OFCOM is either? But ‘all’ appear to agree they are just fine and should be left free to churn out their unique form of the truth, with no more than an internal tummy rub, some temporary side-stepping on full pay, and then a raft of promotions or new hires.
Any who endure the CECUTT creek of sh*t will know that once you hit dead end with the Trust they will smugly direct you at OFCOM, who will simply redirect you back at The Trust, making the Beware of the Leopard filing cabinet rooms alive, well, and situated in the basements of Broadcasting and Riverside Houses in the most devious politico-NGO-media accountability Escher staircase loop possible.
Did we just walk away so easily from the rights that have been fought for since magna carta . The hard fought freedoms that we have enjoyed as a country have been wiped out in an instant by a crowd of people never elected or accountable.That we have let this come about is an embarassment to ant true Englishman
Remember who pressured your leaders into walking away from freedom on your behalf: the nomenklatura.
How can such a hard fought right as freedom of speech potentially be given away without the British people being allowed to vote on it. What a tinpot state we’ve become.
And “mission creep” of the new will no doubt finally strangle our press.
But truth be told they were not doing much of a job before.
A survey a couple of months back of 2000 people showed that only 6% knew about the coalition bankrupting the country.
There’s a good take on that in: “Here’s to a 30s Typr Recession” at:
http://john-moloney.blogspot.com/
Talking about dirty secrets. Big sentimental bit on closing the old BBC centre this morning. Oh what lovely programs that used to be made here. No mention of Top of The Pops. I wonder why?
‘the BBC or any broadcast media who have had pretty stringent conditions in operation.’
Hacking into a phone for a story is pretty despicable, illegal and hence already covered by law. Which has and is proceeding.
Deciding to do over a politically unfavoured person based on the word of a single source provided by a consultant partner, as BBC Newsnight did, does not seem covered that stringently at all frankly.
We all paid the legal costs, and all involved either got a paid holiday or a promotion.
But thanks for raising the point.
Thinking back, scrub the hacking being illegal.
I am not on reflection sure it was.
But the NoTW did get closed for its role in unethical behaviour, by public pressure.
The BBC seems immune from censure, from public or the legislature, no matter what it does, how often, by being unaccountable.
That much can easily be seen already.
At least by those willing to keep their eyes as open as their minds, and don’t operate on the basis of what limited numbers of instructors tell them.
But the worrying thing is that readers of The Quisling actually believe what it prints is true.
Lets have a fee vote on it then. £145 by force or free TV. Difficult choice eh?
As you seem to be on piecework rates, responding only serves your bonus payments so I know should leave you with your cats and shopping trolley full of plastic bags, but simply on a logical basis that stream of consciousness makes no sense, beyond the fact you are desperately trying to avoid the actual point you raised.
As ever, your ongoing efforts serve the BBC’s cause so poorly, I have to presume you are a box or rocks or a plant.
The BBC is popular?
According to Broadcast Audence Research Board at any given time.
BBC1 approx 21%, ITV14.5%, BBC2 6%,C4 5% and C5 4.5% OTHERS 45%
So at any given time more than twice as many viewers choose to watch no tax funded TV.In the same way that approx 3 times as many readers buy ‘right wing’ news papers
Piers Morgan also proudly admitted to hacking phones as they did at the Guardian. These left-wing rags were left alone by Leveson. Why do you think that is?
Can only point to the vendetta conducted by the BBC and other disreputable left-wing propagandists against Murdoch for daring to switch allegiance from Labour to the Conservatives.
I also remember the BBC website playing surreptitiously recorded tapes from the final NotW meeting. That is clearly on a par with phone-hacking, i.e. illegally obtained information.
Oh, the BBC – so accountable! Balen, 28gate…..
Somebody is missing the point. You ought to be demanding police reform, colditz. They’re the ones who fed info to the tabloids and sat on their hands instead of arresting phone hackers. But you’re not interested in that part of the issue, are you? Only your ideological opponents deserve scorn, it seems. It’s hard to tell if you’re being deliberately obtuse or you just aren’t interested in fairness and liberty.
‘Evil empire’.
Pity your party sold their soul to them, eh?
colditz, does your ignorance of the issues you pretend to come here to debate really extend this far? Here’s just one example:
U.K. Police Arrest Woman in Bribery Probe Tied to Phone-Hacking Scandal
London police arrested a 37-year-old woman today as part of their investigation of bribes being paid to officers to get scoops for News Corp. (NWSA)’s now-defunct News of the World tabloid.
The unidentified woman was arrested at a home in Surrey, England, and taken to a station in London, the Metropolitan Police said today in a statement. It’s the seventh arrest in the probe, which is running parallel to investigations of phone hacking and computer hacking at the tabloid.
Haven’t you ever wondered why this was allowed to go on for so long?
The interception and eventual deletion of Millie Dowler’s mobile messages was never proven to be done by a newspaper, Murdoch’s or otherwise and not even by the police. It is now believed by the authorities to have been done as an automatic process by the phone company, something their computers do after a set period of time.
That action by the phone company has however been distorted and twisted shamelessly by the left wing, the Labour Party, the BBC and the disgraced and disgraceful people that make up the Hacked Off, anti-freedom of speech gang, a member of which the above commenter is plainly part.
Also when taking the name of a poor murdered child’s name to further your despicable cause you could at least spell her name right. You really are one of the nastiest pieces of work I have ever come across and should be locked up in the prison of the name you so cynically take.
Murdoch is in my view a gent for paying out to the Dowler family. Nothing was proven. Your hatred of free speech will however not win through. Despots and their darlings never do. Enough said.
Colditz just hates anything right-wing and wants it exterminated, including this website. In his book freedom of speech can only be entrusted to the left-wing press and the BBC.
Like the Mirror
Bear in mind though that the Dowler’s were extremely upset at they way they were cross-examined during the Bediefield (?) trial.
I believe that not only did they call it the worst day of their life they also argued for a change in the law so that defendants did not simply have the right to throw mud around as a calculated form of jury distraction.
Has anything happened? I don’t think so. Has any seleb taken up the cause. Definitely not. Has any leftest/rights/pressure group supported the Dowler’s. Not that I’m aware of.
So given the selectivity about the Dowler’s grievances, it does appear that there has been a piece of cynical exploitation by the selebs/leftists.
Milly Dowler: truth about deletion of messages may never be known
The full truth about the extent of hacking into Milly Dowler’s phone may never be known, police have admitted. Their report to the Leveson inquiry followed an investigation lasting five months into the hacking of the murdered teenager’s phone.
“It is not possible to state with any certainty whether Milly’s voicemails were or were not deleted,” says the report, which was written by Detective Chief Inspector John Macdonald from the Metropolitan police’s Operation Weeting, which is investigating phone hacking.
He said two voicemail messages appeared to have been removed at the time, but because the full technical call data was missing, “reaching a definitive conclusion is not and may never be possible”.
The police said last year that a Guardian report might have mistakenly blamed the News of the World private detective Glenn Mulcaire for deleting Milly’s voicemails and giving her family “false hope” that she was still alive because new evidence had emerged about the dates of calls.
Keep digging, colditz. Keep digging.
Aye, the Guardian – got a little bit ahead of itself in its rush to smear Murdoch.
Now why does that sound familiar…….McAlpine anyone?
What a fascist you are, Colditz. Your stance has nothing to do with phone hacking and everyhting to do with wanting to see the right-wing press – and Fox News – closed down.
You’re shit scared of them, aren’t you? Too many inconvenient truths, eh?
“unelected bullies like Murdoch.”
And the mega-bullies of the BBC who have three times as much influence and generally a malign influence at that – remind me again when did we elect them? I must have missed that.
Sorry to correct you, Colditz, but Fox didn’t call the election for Romney. That didn’t stop Karl Rove – a permanent fixture on the channel during the election – for questioning the result, nor did it stop host Megyn Kelly doing a stroppy march down to the analysts’ room to find out just why they had the nerve to call Ohio for Obama.
Fox had an awful election night. But they didn’t call it for Romney.
‘Worrying. But only for the far right as they sense even more defeat.its inevitable:-)’
On the contrary, colditz old bean. As ever the Left resort to the only desperate means for victory at their disposal – close down the debate.
It’s the Left, in fact, who are on the run as all their prized socialist edifices including the EU, climate alarmism/Agenda 21, mass immigration/multicuturalism, hijacking of the education system – all of which somehow miraculously bypassed the democratic processes of this country – crumble about their ears as the electorate begin to realise they have been conned.
If you were really confident of your cause and it’s unstoppable progress you could just ignore Murdoch, the Mail, the Telegraph, the Express, Fox News etc., couldn’t you? But, quite the opposite, you have to chip away until all expressions of right-of-centre thinking are obliterated becasue that’s the only way you’ll prevail. But even then the economic unsustainability of mad leftist policies would see you come unstuck before long (bad news: when the lights go out it will mean yours too).
The fascist left, and that obviously includes you, can’t win and won’t win.
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