The headline of this article is " Don’t let newspaper victims set the rules, ex-minister warns"
And then it begins "Victims of press harassment should not be given the chance to rewrite the
laws on press freedom, the former Cabinet minister Peter Lilley warns. "
But we know that is exactly what is not happening! It is Leveson who is about to report on what needs to be done, not the victims.
Untruthscaremongering, that is what this is. I do not know what the real point of this article is, or why the minister has said this. If it is his way of saying to Leveson : please ignore in your report any aspects of what the victims of press abuse would like, then we have a problem, because that is precisely why the Leveson enquiry was set up.
To quote him he says "But I think it’s wrong in principle to say that victims of wrongdoing should
have the right to rewrite our laws to deal with offences far beyond anything
they suffered, especially when the offences they suffered were covered by law
and don’t need any independent regulator. "
But they don't have the right! They are not rewriting the laws. So why is he saying this?
This is weird, to say something that has no meaning.
The rest of the article is quite pointless too. It is saying what the whole of UK already knows : it is not good to have a state controlled press. There is no real detail.
A very weird article indeed
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9710202/Dont-let-newspaper-victims-set-the-rules-ex-minister-warns.html
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