Thursday 30 August 2012

Is Leveson Loading a Gun on the Press

My reaction on reading this is "Good!" but obviously there is a caveat. Mainly that it is discerning and attacks only certain sections of the Press and bears in mind the good work that investigative journalism of the more mature variety does (take MP's expenses for example). We must always have a questioning media and a free press, but we must not have a feral media that wallows in spiv culture and that must always be stamped on when necessary

Thursday 23 August 2012

Those Prince Harry Pics

Yes it is not an issue as such in that he is doing something a lot of other people of his age have done and therefore not newsworthy. As Vanessa Feltz said, if he was a dignitary at the Olympics misbehaving in front of others that would have been different, but instead he is third in line to the throne and this was in his spare time. I may not approve of what he did, but it is not news and not in the public interest for the reasons I have given