Post by Bartonite on Dec 2, 2012 12:35:02 GMT
hackinginquiry.org/
What it says on the tin.
Could this initiative herald a seachange in politics and wider society? Politicians certainly have no problem dismissing petitions as unrepresentative of the views of the general public, but then nothing really captures what the general public think, except perhaps when it comes to capital punishment and home invasion, so maybe we're better off feeling our way...
Those who are against closer regulation do have a point, of course. Yes, much of what the press did, such as phone hacking, was already against the law, and you shouldn't need to create new laws to deal with that. You might not even want to, because one person's invasion of privacy is another person's search for facts the public have a right to know (journalists even had excuses for the Milly Dowler phone hacking, and if people defend waterboarding...)
However, journalists aren't just drinking in the Last Chance Saloon. They're sitting in the dirt outside the Last Chance Saloon, having been kicked out for cheating at cards, and pretty lucky not to have a terminal case of lead poisoning. Swinging an argument one way or another is what they do best, and it's high time to say, 'Too late to weasel out of this one. It's regulatin' time'.
www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/discussions/possible-David-Cameron-bow-public-pressure-MP/discussion-17477956-detail/discussion.html
What it says on the tin.
Could this initiative herald a seachange in politics and wider society? Politicians certainly have no problem dismissing petitions as unrepresentative of the views of the general public, but then nothing really captures what the general public think, except perhaps when it comes to capital punishment and home invasion, so maybe we're better off feeling our way...
Those who are against closer regulation do have a point, of course. Yes, much of what the press did, such as phone hacking, was already against the law, and you shouldn't need to create new laws to deal with that. You might not even want to, because one person's invasion of privacy is another person's search for facts the public have a right to know (journalists even had excuses for the Milly Dowler phone hacking, and if people defend waterboarding...)
However, journalists aren't just drinking in the Last Chance Saloon. They're sitting in the dirt outside the Last Chance Saloon, having been kicked out for cheating at cards, and pretty lucky not to have a terminal case of lead poisoning. Swinging an argument one way or another is what they do best, and it's high time to say, 'Too late to weasel out of this one. It's regulatin' time'.
www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/discussions/possible-David-Cameron-bow-public-pressure-MP/discussion-17477956-detail/discussion.html
