Leveson and Press Freedom: Is an Unregulated Press 'Free'?
Friday 30 November 2012
Dr Paul Hodkinson from the Department of Sociology has posted a blog on the Leveson enquiry.
Please click here to read the blog
We have heard much about freedom of the press in recent weeks – and about the sacred rubicon that would be crossed if the state were given even the smallest underpinning role in any future regulator. In the days leading up to Leveson’s eagerly awaited report those in support of continued self-regulation have sought to present us with a stark opposition between a free press responsible for itself and a press entirely shackled by government. The former, we are told, enables the powerful to be held to account on behalf of the people while the latter would amount to some sort of nod towards totalitarianism. And there is, it is asserted, no middle ground, between the two.