Newspaper editors sign up to Leveson recommendations
This week national editors signed up to the Lord Justice Levesons non-statutory recommendations to kill off the ‘Hunt-black plan as a template to reform’. The overall editors of over every “fleet street” signed up to 40 of the 47 Leveson recommendations. The ultimate aim is to create an independent regulator with the power to fine up to £1 million, whilst operating a low-cost tribunal system that that will handle the ‘libel and privacy claims’. The 7 recommendations that editors failed to sign up consisted of the Ofcom or any other regulator ‘agreeing to wait to see what non-statutory proposals Downing Street would have to offer’. The chairman (Lord Hunt) of the Press complaints commission will be continuing to to work at setting up this new regulator. The Editors at the meeting also agreed to wait for Oliver Letwin and David Cameron’s policy fixer to come back with a proposal. On how to toughen up and support the planned new regulator. Whilst, it is still unclear whether newspapers ‘deemed the Letwin plan to be uneffective.
In my own opinion
· Although some say that restricting print media won’t cause much of a problem because of the opportunity our society now has with new and digital media. However, I do think this will cause a problem as the percentage buyers of print platforms are old pensioners who aren’t as intact with the web as others of society. Restricting this will cause a loss of profit from businesses (such as local postoffices, Whsmith, Tesco’s) but also restrict what we will be letting our older generation read.
· The seven recommendations that the editors refused on were to wait and see what Downing Street would come up with. The idea of waiting will give way to other ideas that might not be proved as effective. Society is becoming restless waiting for the problem to be fixed. If we wait it’s almost as if we are putting the scandal on hold, further allowing others to do the same thing.
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