The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of
the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and
sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it
makes it. The phone-hacking scandal and the Leveson Inquiry into
the "culture, practice and ethics" of the media has put the UK
press under scrutiny and on trial as never before. There Is No Such
Thing as a Free Press questions many of today's distorted but
widely-held views of the media, and turns the assumptions
underlying the current discussion on their head. The problem is not
that the UK press has too much freedom to run wild, but too little
liberty. The trouble is not that the UK press is too far
out-of-control, but that it is far too conformist. The danger is
not that press freedom is too open to abuse, but that the British
media is not nearly open enough. Mick Hume draws on the lessons of
history and cross-examines the evidence from the Leveson Inquiry to
take on the army of conformists and regulators who would further
tame press freedom.
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