British press

British press is under fire. The Leveson inquiry was not kind for the British press. The phone-hacking scandal made the Leveson inquiry needed.

Back to the phone-hacking scandal: News of the World hacked many phones to get influence en get their news. Many celebrity phones were hacked. There arose a great public outcry when it was revealed      that News of the World hacked the phones of the murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler. In response of the scandal News of the World quit. And the PM David Cameron announced a public inquiry about the ethics of the British press. This inquiry is the Leveson inquiry.

The inquiry is a good thing. Hacking phones has nothing to do with journalism. That is spying. Let MI6 do that, not the tabloids. But even if MI6 was hacking Milly's phone it would be public outcry. News of the World shouldn't have done this. But it happened, and now the question is how the society have to reponse to this.

The Leveson inquiry proposes a press watchdog. That would be a big chance. But the tabloids screwed up. I don't think a press watchdog is a bad idea. It is a good idea. But how much power should it get. The coalition between Cameron and Clegg disagree with each other. Cameron thinks the watchdog isn't a good idea. But Clegg thinks it is. He has the public opinion with him. And I think that if the most of Britian wants this watchdog it is worth trying.