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January 11th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
By
Vanessa Allen
Last updated at 9:04 AM on 11th January 2012
Lord Justice Leveson has declared that the rights of free speech and Press freedom are ‘a fundamental bedrock of society’
The judge in charge of the inquiry into Press standards yesterday suggested that he did not support State regulation of newspapers.
Lord Justice Leveson said the rights of free speech and the freedom of the Press were ‘a fundamental bedrock of society’.
During a series of interventions to the inquiry hearing, he brought up the need for an arbitration system which could settle minor disputes.
He said it was essential to have an ‘independent mechanism’ and indicated the new body would have the power to ‘require’ newspapers to co-operate with its investigations, unlike the current Press Complaints Commission.
But he suggested he would not recommend State regulation in his eventual report to Parliament.
Lord Justice Leveson said: ‘I’d be very surprised if government regulation ever even entered my mind.’
‘Duty’: Will Lewis, former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, addresses the Leveson Inquiry yesterday
He then said: ‘I’m not committing myself to anything, I have to hear everybody’s views.
‘But I have said more than once that
freedom of expression and freedom of the Press – which are different
concepts – are to my mind a fundamental bedrock of our society.
‘But that’s not to say that there couldn’t be some sort of independent mechanism that deals with complaints, regulation and resolution of disputes, that doesn’t involve the Government, doesn’t involve the State, but is in some way set up so that it can operate and can require people to go through that route, however independently staffed it is, which I think is essential.’
Yesterday’s hearing at the Royal
Courts of Justice also heard that the Daily Telegraph paid a six-figure
sum to an intermediary for crucial information which uncovered the MPs’
expenses scandal.
Former
editor-in-chief Will Lewis said the newspaper gave £150,000 to
‘intelligence expert’ John Wick for a computer disk containing four
years of information about MPs’ expenses.
He defended the decision robustly, saying newspapers had a duty to expose immoral and criminal behaviour.
It
led to ‘one of the most important bits of public service and
public-interest journalism in the post-war period’, Mr Lewis claimed.
‘I
saw it as my ethical obligation to bring this profound wrongdoing at
the heart of the House of Commons into the public domain and remain
passionately of that view now,’ he said.
Mr
Lewis – now an executive member of the standards committee at Rupert
Murdoch’s News Corporation – denied the Telegraph had dragged out its
coverage of the scandal for commercial gain.
● A retired policeman was arrested yesterday on suspicion of passing unauthorised information to a journalist.
The
52-year-old former Metropolitan Police officer, who has not been named,
was detained by officials from the Independent Police Complaints
Commission at his home in Berkshire and taken to a Thames Valley police
station.
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Freedom of speech? That’s a laugh. There is virtually no freedom of speech since NuLabour came into power.
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Any supervisory body with PCC in its name is next to useless. That includes the Independent (laughably) Police Complaints Commission and the Press Complaints Commission.
Both those bodies fail in their duty to protect genuine complainants. The worst in my opinion is actually the police complaints body as there is no brake on the police getting away with blue murder at present. Ask any innocent man falsely accused of domestic violence, just for starters. At least with the PCC, people don’t usually get beaten up or killed.
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Free speech in Britain? You’re having a laugh! Labour and the Eussr got rid of that many years ago.
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So what about the super injunctions? – double standards as usually in the UK
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I won’t call for State regulation of the Press hints Leveson
Please note that it was only a “hint”! But I suppose that may be shown to be more reliable than you know who’s “cast iron promises” wont it? Or will it?!
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If free speech is such a rock, why did Diane Abbott have to apologise for her ‘white people’ tweet?
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Haha freedom of speech? Where? The press have it, maybe, but what about the rest of us poor plebs?
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The outcome of this enquiry was decided before it opened – Leveson is a chosen insider who will do nothing to upset the status quo . Look up his associates and his circle of influential friends including the Murdoch family and then see how easy it is to rig these enquiries by putting the right people in charge.
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Kelvin McKenzie ” had him on toast.” His very telling remarks about Levenson having weeks to make a judgement in a single case, and STILL getting it wrong, compared to a red top editor who may have ten minutes on thirty stories a day, but usually getting it right and paying damages if he didn`t. ( unlike the judge) rang a bell with me. Carry on reporting. People who live in the media spotlight should NOT be immune from the bad stories about them!
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Stuart of Glasgow you are right I have noticed the add to my stories articles too . Labour is responsible for a of these laws to protect so called peace loving people.
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