Leveson report: Victims urge full implementation

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6. I am sure all the points you have listed are valid

I just wonder whether Leveson's proposals would actually benefit ordinary people. Sadly, experience suggests legal restrictions on the press tend to be exploited by the rich and powerful more than the poor. I dont think Leveson would make the slightest difference to the press ownership structure in the UK or the way in which it is abused. Nor are the proposed changes going to make any difference to the way stories are slanted against certain groups in society or in favour of others. If there was one regulatory reform that I think that should be considered it is perhaps giving people impacted by stories that misrepresent them an automatic right of reply and specifying how that would appear in the media (ie requiring papers to set aside a certain part of their periodicals for this purpose and laying out where and how any replies should be displayed).