This interview with the McCanns was broadcast on The Andrew Marr Show on the 17th Feb 2013. The McCanns are concerned that the proposals presented to the press by The Leveson Inquiry are going to be ignored. Students need to research the power of a 'royal charter'. Have the politicians and the mainstream press ignored Leveson? This is a superb interview. Those students exploring debates and issues relating to Leveson and Regulation for their coursework need to digest this resource.Link to interview:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21490321
Below is a link to an anti-Leveson article published by THE DAILY MAIL. This newspaper do not want any changes to press regulation as they believe that 'free speech' will be impinged. Paul Dacre is the editor of this newspaper and has a reputation for being outspoken and.....er..confident.
Click on link below to access Dacre's reaction. This covered 12 pages of the newspaper in November 13:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2233681/Leveson-Inquiry-Mail-dossier-raises-disturbing-questions-influence-quasi-masonic-nexus-people-know-best.html
Some would argue that this reaction is an example of why we desperately need press regulation to protect the public from such subjective representations of truth.
THE DAILY EXPRESS representation of this horrific tragedy is almost beyond words. Again, research required. Here are three articles from The Telegraph, The BBC and The Guardian reacting to the McCann coverage in The Express:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/leveson-inquiry/9011429/Leveson-Inquiry-Express-owner-accused-of-grotesque-misrepresentation.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16525968
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/dec/21/daily-express-obsessed-madeleine-mccann
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