Leveson report: Victims urge full implementation

[LeftishBrit]

3. It should be in principle possible...

to set up a regulatory commission that was not directly dependent on a particular government or political party.

In theory, the Press Complaints Commission might have been that body, but it has essentially no teeth.

I do not want the press to be even more politicized than it is; but at least politicians are elected, and are supposed to live in this country and pay taxes. The press barons are completely unaccountable, cannot be sacked by the voters, and often don't even live in the UK. And they have enormous power to influence governments, usually negatively; and to destroy ordinary people's lives.