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gynn · 13-05-2012, 11:56

The Leveson Inquiry has been running a couple of months now, and occupies a lot of time on the News Channels and has been given plenty of column inches in the quality papers.

There seems to be growing a theory that, whilst it is of major interest in the 'Westminster Bubble', there is little appetite for it in the country as a whole. This seems to be confirmed by the lack of discussion of it on this forum, apart from references to Rupert Murdoch in the thread entitled 'The Tories'. And my search for the word 'Leveson' hasn't returned a single result.

Is this because we aren't really learning anything new, and ithe whole thing is becoming nothing more than theatre, with individuals giving well rehearsed answers, and the process degenerating into tittle tattle about things like how David Cameron signs off his text messages?

We know exactly what Leveson's conclusions will be:
1. The Press have acted inappropriately in the past in getting and publishing information, and this must stop.
2. There has been too close a relationship in the past between Politicians and the Press Barons, and this must stop.

Anything further, like criminal activity in phone hacking or securing contracts, is subject to separate criminal proceedings, which will come out in the wash as the cases come to court.

Leveson is costing us a fortune. Is it really money well spent?

13-05-2012, 11:56	#1
gynn Senior Member+ Join Date: Apr 2009 Posts: 1,136 Liked: 10 times Rep Power: 4983	Leveson Inquiry The Leveson Inquiry has been running a couple of months now, and occupies a lot of time on the News Channels and has been given plenty of column inches in the quality papers. There seems to be growing a theory that, whilst it is of major interest in the 'Westminster Bubble', there is little appetite for it in the country as a whole. This seems to be confirmed by the lack of discussion of it on this forum, apart from references to Rupert Murdoch in the thread entitled 'The Tories'. And my search for the word 'Leveson' hasn't returned a single result. Is this because we aren't really learning anything new, and ithe whole thing is becoming nothing more than theatre, with individuals giving well rehearsed answers, and the process degenerating into tittle tattle about things like how David Cameron signs off his text messages? We know exactly what Leveson's conclusions will be: 1. The Press have acted inappropriately in the past in getting and publishing information, and this must stop. 2. There has been too close a relationship in the past between Politicians and the Press Barons, and this must stop. Anything further, like criminal activity in phone hacking or securing contracts, is subject to separate criminal proceedings, which will come out in the wash as the cases come to court. Leveson is costing us a fortune. Is it really money well spent?