More Royal Lessons for Leveson
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Posted 09.16.2012
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UK
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Lord Justice Leveson,
Prince William Kate Middleton,
Sir Christopher Meyer,
Duchess of Cambridge Topless,
UK Media,
Kate Middleton,
Press Complaints Commission,
Duchess of Cambridge,
Leveson Inquiry,
UK News
But, what about the internet, I hear you cry? Kate's topless photos have shot around the world. Doesn't this make an utter nonsense of press regulation, statutory or non-statutory? And isn't it unfair to put newspapers, already in a dodgy financial state, at a commercial disadvantage by not being able to publish content widely available online? There are no easy answers. But, unless you want to dispense with regulation altogether, to give newspapers an automatic right to reproduce anything they fancy from the internet surely cannot be justified.
