Re: PRESS VICTIMS PETITION FOR NEW LAW

**bb1** Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:11 pm

deborah butler ‏@IWILLNOTGOAWAY
@GaryLineker how can you condone gerry #mccann ? he left 3 babies alone abroad in the dark for 5 nights - get a grip - you are a decent man

And what did Gary do to earn the ire of Tango, you may ask? This:

Gary Lineker ‏@GaryLineker
Help force parliament to help people not papers, by signing the #hackedoff petition at http://hackinginquiry.org/ and please RT #Leveson

**Sabot** Sun Dec 02, 2012 6:18 pm

Isn't she doing well. Have these morons got no self awareness?

**bb1** Sun Dec 02, 2012 7:03 pm

Nope; look at what a plonker emu made of herself last night, with her drunken spamming - 26 posts, I think it was in the end, each one more incoherent than the last.

**bb1** Sun Dec 02, 2012 10:29 pm

Anthony Bennett ‏@zampos
Rich celebs: @jk_rowling @stephenfry @HackedOffHugh @TheSteveCoogan #MaxMosley #McCann trying to dictate response to #Leveson #PressFreedom

Bet he's keeping 'dossiers' on them; he already thinks JK Rowling is a witch. Pcorneater

**bb1** Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:46 am

127404

Hilarious to see the McCann-haters whinging from the same songsheet as the Mail - and what's Richard Dawkins done to rattle their cages?

**Pedro Silva** Mon Dec 03, 2012 10:48 am

127404 signatures, excellent, the more the better.

**bb1** Mon Dec 03, 2012 3:59 pm

131782

**bb1** Mon Dec 03, 2012 8:53 pm

Hugh Grant ‏@HackedOffHugh
Shami Chakrabarti on how the Mail on Sunday (who say we can all trust them now) took gigantic Liberty with her words. http://www.liberty-human-rights.org.uk/news/2012/liberty-leveson-and-the-culture-practice-and-ethics-of-t.php …

134830

**Pedro Silva** Mon Dec 03, 2012 9:18 pm

134992 signatures, excellent, the more the better.

**bb1** Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:12 am

JillyCL ‏@JillyCL
@hackinginquiry Why is the petition not on a verified official site? http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/ Don't bother replying, I know the answer. #McCann

rofl

**Lamplighter** Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:31 am

Just signed - 137,480 sigs at this moment. LL

**bb1** Tue Dec 04, 2012 11:37 am

Looks like it's going to go through 140,000 easily, LL.

Bennett will have to get knitting - he needs rather a lot of new socks.

**bb1** Tue Dec 04, 2012 9:26 pm

140018

**Pedro Silva** Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:35 pm

140248 signatures, excellent, the more signatures the better.

**bb1** Tue Dec 04, 2012 10:48 pm

J4M ‏@J4MBM
@ShanksLFC #mccann banned book cos truth hurts but r happy for UK Media to spin sh*te which makes a mockery of Maddie cos none of it's true

And a stupid hater entirely misses the point of Leveson - that the carp the tabloids printed WASN'T TRUE.

You couldn't make it up rofl

**bb1** Wed Dec 05, 2012 2:31 pm

An excellent piece of the chicanery and propaganda currently emanating from the press:

http://inforrm.wordpress.com/2012/12/05/media-lawyers-and-leveson-a-petition-in-support-of-the-recommendations-dominic-crossley/

I assume that the press are failing to grasp that their actions serve only to demonstrate why they can't be trusted to regulate themselves.

**bb1** Thu Dec 06, 2012 4:37 pm

More oddness:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/dec/06/andy-coulson-rebekah-brooks

Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks appear at Old Bailey
David Cameron's ex-communications director and ex-News International head appear on charges of payments to officials

David Cameron's former communications director Andy Coulson and the ex-News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks have appeared at the Old Bailey on charges of illegal payments to public officials.

The pair appeared for a preliminary hearing on Thursday morning alongside the former News of the World royal correspondent Clive Goodman, the veteran Sun journalist John Kay and a Ministry of Defence official, Bettina Jordan-Barber.

Mr Justice Fulford ended the 15-minute hearing by ordering them to return to Southwark crown court for a plea and case management hearing on 8 March.

Brooks, Kay and Jordan-Barber face charges of conspiracy to pay approximately £100,000 for information that formed the basis of several news stories between 2004 and 2011.

Coulson and Goodman face two charges of conspiring to pay public officials for information, including a Buckingham Palace phone directory, known as the Green Book, that contained contact details for members of the royal family.

The five did not speak or sit in the dock for the short hearing in court one at the Old Bailey in central London.

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Mr Justice Fulford ended the 15-minute hearing by ordering them to return to Southwark crown court for a plea and case management hearing on 8 March.

It must be my cynical mind, but I just can't help thinking that the script has already been worked out.

**Pedro Silva** Thu Dec 06, 2012 5:25 pm

143106 signatures, excellent, the more signatures the better.

**Pedro Silva** Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:36 pm

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/42523

**bb1** Thu Dec 06, 2012 6:39 pm

That one's doing well too, without any publicity:

Implement the recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, regarding press regulation, in full

Responsible department: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

We call upon the government to implement, in full, the recommendations of Leveson LJ following his inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the press.

Over the last 70 years the printed press has repeatedly and consistently demonstrated that it is incapable of adequately regulating itself. A free press is a just and essential requirement of a democratic society, but the power that the press wields cannot be allowed to be abused to serve the powerful and privileged.

The broadcast media has long been governed by the statute-backed Ofcom, without its independence and effectiveness being compromised. We regret the suggestion that such a regulator would weaken the printed press.

Sign this petition
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Number of signatures:
5,470

Five times the sigs Bennett's socks have managed.

**Pedro Silva** Thu Dec 06, 2012 7:27 pm

5473 signatures, excellent, the more the better.

**bb1** Thu Dec 06, 2012 9:12 pm

From:

http://news.sky.com/story/1021805/leveson-hacked-off-calls-meetings-a-charade

Leveson: Hacked Off Calls Meetings A Charade
As newspaper editors say they have agreed plans to implement some of the Leveson proposals, campaigners express their anger.

Editors met with the Prime Minister earlier this week

What a dodgy-looking bunch! The one in the middle looks like Blackadder Shocked

**Pedro Silva** Thu Dec 06, 2012 10:35 pm

143698 signatures, excellent, the more the better.

5479 signatures, excellent, the more the better.

**bb1** Fri Dec 07, 2012 11:22 pm

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/07/leveson-cameron-royal-charter-press-watchdog

Leveson proposals: PM may use royal charter to set up press watchdog

David Cameron considers new body as alternative to statutory underpinning as recommended by Lord Justice Leveson

David Cameron is reportedly considering establishing a new press watchdog by royal charter, the same mechanism used to establish the BBC, as an alternative to statutory underpinning as recommended by Lord Justice Leveson.

The prime minister is looking at this option as a way of guaranteeing the body's independence from newspapers and politicians.

A spokesman for Cameron did not rule out setting up a new press watchdog by royal charter. Asked about reports that Cameron was considering this, he said: "We are digesting the Leveson report and considering a range of options."

The development comes as Cameron comes under mounting criticism for not accepting Leveson's recommendation for a press law.

Labour is expected to soon publish a draft bill setting out how the newspaper industry's plans for an independent regulator can be overseen by a new body backed by statute.

The party has been in discussion with Liberal Democrats and Tory backbench MPs supporting statutory underpinning, and is confident there has been no backsliding by supporters of this reform.

Royal charters are legally binding documents that can set out the powers, rules and other legal responsibilities of a body. It is also a way of incorporating a body into a legal entity.

The Bank of England and the British Red Cross were set up by royal charter, as was the University of Cambridge. The BBC's royal charter is reviewed every 10 years and is seen as a mechanism to ensure independence from government.

Cameron and the newspaper industry have been told by Leveson that it is "essential" that a statute is needed to create a body to verify the new press regulator's performance, auditing its decisions periodically to keep it in check.

However, Cameron has said he has concerns about such statutory underpinning, prompting victims of press intrusion such as JK Rowling to say they feel "duped and angry" over his response to the Leveson inquiry.

Under pressure from Cameron, newspapers have agreed to implement most of Leveson's recommendations, bar those that require new statutes or amendments to laws such as the Data Protection Act.

The director of campaign group Hacked Off, Brian Cathcart, said earlier this week that the deal "smells of a stitch up" between politicians and editors. On Thursday, the group said the plans to set up a new watchdog without statute was "a charade".

In an interview in politics magazine The House, Hugh Grant said he detected a shift in opinion following the Leveson debate in the Commons on Monday in which a number of Tories said they supported statutory underpinning.

"It seemed to me personally like a little bit of a shift," he added. "They seemed more hardline on Thursday and suddenly less hardline, significantly less hardline … almost as though, perhaps, they had started to register public opinion."

Grant said he worries about revenge being taken by newspapers against those who took them on. "That's the technique, it's why, sadly, what is a really important, almost sacred, function in our democracy – which is journalism – has drifted in some quarters of our press much nearer to a protection racket."

**Pedro Silva** Sat Dec 08, 2012 12:02 am

144495 signatures, excellent, the more signatures the better.

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