Briefly:
- New self-regulation body recommended – Govt.
not involved
- Independent of serving editors, government and
business – no editors on board, can’t be influenced by others.
- No widespread corruption of police by the
press found – didn’t think police corrupt
- Politicians and press have been too close – too
friendly, Rebekah Brooks etc
- Press behaviour, at times, has been 'outrageous' – phone-hacking, Madeleine McCann, Moat, Bird
David Cameron
David Cameron has refused to implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry stating that, "It would be a dereliction of our duty in this House of Commons, which has stood up for freedom and a free Press year after year, century after century, to cross the Rubicon by legislating on the Press without thinking about it carefully first."
David Cameron has refused to implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry stating that, "It would be a dereliction of our duty in this House of Commons, which has stood up for freedom and a free Press year after year, century after century, to cross the Rubicon by legislating on the Press without thinking about it carefully first."
Ed Miliband/Nick Clegg
Ed Miliband tells MPs they should trust Leveson's recommendations and says his proposals should be accepted in full. Miliband says he believes Ofcom is the right body to oversee the establishment of a new press regulator. Mr Clegg suggested he supported changing the law, insisting it was 'the only way to guarantee' that the media was kept in check. He said a free Press 'does not mean a Press that is free to bully innocent people' and 'destroy lives'.
Ed Miliband tells MPs they should trust Leveson's recommendations and says his proposals should be accepted in full. Miliband says he believes Ofcom is the right body to oversee the establishment of a new press regulator. Mr Clegg suggested he supported changing the law, insisting it was 'the only way to guarantee' that the media was kept in check. He said a free Press 'does not mean a Press that is free to bully innocent people' and 'destroy lives'.
JK Rowling
"If the prime minister did not wish to change the regulatory system even to the moderate, balanced and proportionate extent proposed by Lord Leveson, I am at a loss to understand why so much public money has been spent and why so many people have been asked to relive extremely painful episodes on the stand in front of millions. Having taken David Cameron's assurances in good faith at the outset of the inquiry he set up, I am merely one among many who feel duped and angry in its wake.
Jerry McCann
He said Lord Leveson's central recommendation for a new independent panel to monitor newspaper standards with statutory underpinning "did not go far enough."
"If the prime minister did not wish to change the regulatory system even to the moderate, balanced and proportionate extent proposed by Lord Leveson, I am at a loss to understand why so much public money has been spent and why so many people have been asked to relive extremely painful episodes on the stand in front of millions. Having taken David Cameron's assurances in good faith at the outset of the inquiry he set up, I am merely one among many who feel duped and angry in its wake.
Jerry McCann
He said Lord Leveson's central recommendation for a new independent panel to monitor newspaper standards with statutory underpinning "did not go far enough."
"I would have liked to have seen a properly independent regulation of the press, whereas I think he has given the press another opportunity of self-regulation. It should be made compulsory and measures put in place to make journalists more accountable. But I do accept that full implementation of Lord Leveson's report is the minimum acceptable compromise for me and I think for many other victims who have suffered at the hands of the press."
