The internet was not, in fairness, part of Leveson’s brief, ?but Rod Dadak argues it is now self-evident that the press have ?had their day and it is control of the internet that is required
The Leveson Report into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press following the phone hacking scandal was for many a massive anti-climax. Having experienced a media bloodbath and heard evidence from victims, it could be no surprise as to what Lord Justice Leveson would recommend.
It wasn’t so much what was recommended but what wasn’t. In Chapter 3 Part C of Part I of the report: ‘Alternative news providers’ deals with blogs, other web-based commentary and social networking sites. It rightly opens by recording that: “The media landscape, particularly the provision of news, both globally and in the UK has been transformed by the invention and phenomenal development of the internet.”
As opposed to the declining readership of the press, 74 per cent of adults in the UK have access to broadband and 22 per cent of all the time that adults spend engaging ...
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