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A regulator with teeth: are you crazy?

There is no ahistorical code of 'press ethics' which can come out of this farrago, writes James Turley (first published here) Talk about a hostage to fortune - as soon as this writer detects a “momentary let-up” in the phone-hacking saga,[1] we get a new crop of developments. Another senior News International figure, former News of the ...

Politics of press freedom

Rather than relying on bureaucratic solutions, argues James Turley, the left needs a dynamic approach to the media (first published in the Weekly Worker) Prior to the outrage in Norway, the news agenda had been dominated by the phone-hacking scandal, and the chaos into which it pitched the entire establishment. The left press was no exception. The ...