Add the names Gillard and Conroy to your list for your Antipodean friends. Curiously, the ABC - which is staffed with their sycophants - and certain specifically-named and equally sycophantic websites are to be exempted. In short, anyone who would perform a glosso-rectal conjunction is to be let free; everybody who dares criticise them goes under the censor's hammer.
Fuck the lot of them forever with Satan's barbed penis - although even he might not be willing to lower himself so far.
You may also want to add the names of Murdoch, Dacre, Coulson, Brooks, etc. to your list - without whose disregard of humanity, decency and true journalistic values none of this would have happened.
What rot. This is just a shallow excuse being used to do something beyond the pale. Don't like the gutter press? Don't buy it - nobody's forcing you to, after all. But when you go looking for something that critiques the government of the day and there is nothing, NOTHING, except page after page of bureaucratic, boot-licking hagiography, don't come crying to we who tried to warn you.
You seem to be implying that the politicians were itching to impose regulation all along, and took the first "shallow excuse" available. The recent history of relations between press and politicians in this country suggests otherwise to me. They set up Leveson only when public outrage at press excesses became even more frightening to them than the disfavour of the media oligarchs. The press had a cushy little number going, they got arrogant, they blew it: they can't pretend they have no responsibility for this mess.
I beg to differ with you. The Australian government has certainly been waiting for this excuse the whole time: they even imported it, lock, stock and barrel, from the UK - along with, I might add, a former UK Labor political advisor, who sits at the Australian Prime Minister's proverbial right hand.
There is no reason, justification or excuse for the Leveson inquiry. If the public is that outraged, it just has to stop buying the trash. The proprietors will take their signal from that, as they have since time immemorial.
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There is no reason, justification or excuse for the Leveson inquiry. If the public is that outraged, it just has to stop buying the trash. The proprietors will take their signal from that, as they have since time immemorial.
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