Like many people, I’ve been watching, reading about, and listening to the Leveson enquiry in to press standards, with great interest.<\/p>\n
It’s been clear, almost from the start of the testimonies, that there is something so rotten in this particular state of Denmark, that the press landscape stinks more than a barrel of dead fish.<\/p>\n
Several surprising revelations have stuck out more than others.<\/p>\n
The revelation, from the current chairman of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC), that his organisation is not a regulator or arbiter of standards, would have made many people sit up.<\/p>\n
The clue is in the name, but many people would have assumed that, because of its position, the PCC was a watchdog with disciplinary powers.<\/p>\n
It isn’t.<\/p>\n
It’s a toothless complaints organisation.<\/p>\n
And newspapers – such as the For me, the wider question is ‘How can the concept of self-regulation work?’<\/p>\n To be truly effective, doesn’t a regulator have to be *outside* of the industry that it is regulating?<\/p>\n I do find it interesting that the vested interests who have testified to Leveson have all said they feel that statutory regulation would damage, not help their industry.<\/p>\n These are, presumably, the same newspaper publishers who want every other industry independently\/statutorily regulated?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like many people, I’ve been watching, reading about, and listening to the Leveson enquiry in to press standards, with great interest. It’s been clear, almost<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Duly Getworse<\/del> Daily Express and the Daily Spurt<\/del> Daily Sport, who have walked away from the PCC – can choose to ignore everything the PCC ever says.<\/p>\n