I'm not sure how well publicised this has been outside of the UK, but the
Leveson Inquiry is a public inquiry into press ethics over here. It's been going on for over a year, has seen the Murdochs blabbering away in court like frightened children (which was incidentally the most enjoyable thing I've ever watched) has cost
a lot of money and has dug up so much dirt on what the media gets up to that not taking serious action on it should be grounds for sectioning. And it seems like we're going to have to lock our government up in the looney bin because the
report Leveson recently released after over a year of research into it has been almost
completely dismissed by our wonderful PM and many of the MPs on his side. I can't claim to not be biased against anything our current government does but seriously, what? Are we just going to ignore everything this inquiry has found and forget about why we set it up in the first place? Okay, so Cameron has suggested
continuing the private regulation except, you know, these are the people that managed to conveniently let all this dirt slip past their radar in the first place.
Am I the only one seething at this kind of thing? I ask honestly because I seriously can't comprehend how anyone can find this kind of conduct acceptable. It would be like declaring a man guilty in court when absolutely no evidence of his involvement in a crime has been given, he has no motive and a perfect alibi.