What do members think about the way in which the rich and powerful (and footballers of the left) are able to obtain super injunctions to stop the publication of true stories rather than made up ones.

I can appreciate that there could be a distinction to be made between 'needing to know' and 'wanting to know,' but should the press be able to 'publish and be dammed?'

 In cases of factually incorrect stories or national security who is to decide?

My own position is that the press should be free to pretty well print anything and everything, and then be insured to take the consequences of error or malignity.

I write from the position of a no-body whose life is constantly affected and afflicted by powerful people, and who considers the press a vital element in helping to make them answerable for their actions.

Peter,

        My thoughts are that everyone has the right to privacy if it is their own privacy.This to me means a Public Figure who takes money from the Public purse [by Taxed means ] does have a right to be scruitinised by the Press for the people. A person of private means who takes nothing from the country by way of Taxation has a right to privacy, unless the accusation  is of a criminal nature. Why should a Footballer who works for his money have his lifestyle banded around the Media just so that they can make good for themselves out of it. If the Prime Minister visits Male Prostitutes some of which could be seen as unsafe for the Minister to be with then the Press has a job here for the Nation to know.

burocrat basher:

If the Prime Minister visits Male Prostitutes

I didn't know that. Has he also got a super-injunction ?

Difficult to know what's for the best.

Do spare a thought for the family members of the people involved they suffer the most.

Its good to have a free and open press with information on demand, but lies and half truths can seriously damage a persons life. And when the information is out there that's it, there's no going back. An apology is of little value when the damage is done.

If the legal system was free to all?

One of the TV channels are promoting everyone to volunteer and donate a day to a worthwhile cause.

Maybe the cure to this problem would be to make the law profession donate their time to the general public free of charge? Because I cant see them volunteering.

burocrat basher:

If the Prime Minister visits Male Prostitutes some of which could be seen as unsafe for the Minister to be with then the Press has a job here for the Nation to know.

There was a past leader of the Liberal Party who consorted thus, as, more recently, did a Labour Minister, and, no doubt, there are those from all the parties who incline that way from time to time.

The 'innocent' party in any deviation from the legal norm is always open to emotional distress in matters of the cold heart and the hot trousers. I am not sure however, at what point truth should remain unseen and deceit undetected.

The idea of the Confessional did not arise because there was no human need to reveal truth. 

its merely a symptom of our sick society, bankers get away with grand larceny and can do as they please. ditto footballers.

if you earn 70 grand a week, while ordinary people struggle,you can expect to be in the papers.

Very interesting docu on last night about the financial crisis, called rise of the machines. anyone see it?

Glasshouse,

                    If someone legally earns a lot of money why should he or she be open for exposure,surely their Business is their Business.Take from the Public purse,different Kettle of Fish. Bankers who make out that their Salaries are comensurate with their ability,make the biggest mess since the twenty nine Slump and then take Bonuses for what they have done and walk away and leave the good old Brit to to pay for their" Con". Lets expose every last bit of their Folly.

bb, i concur. the biggest folly was bailing them out.

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