From: tekalynn	Date: July 11th, 2011 03:26 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Bravo, sir.

	From: poliphilo	Date: July 11th, 2011 04:19 pm (UTC)		(Link)

Hear, hear.

The NOTW broke the existing laws of the land. We don't need new laws. We simply need the old laws to be applied. This scandal is as much about the corruption of the law-makers and the law-enforcers as it is about journalists.

	From: kestrelsparhawk	Date: July 11th, 2011 06:42 pm (UTC)		(Link)
	Well said

I have not kept a close eye on this, except the BBC reports, but from what I have seen your criticism of the House is spot on. While I believe in limits on press freedom, it merely extends to not invading privacy of citizens (and despite my journalist father, I do question if the private lives of public figures should be completely without limits, particularly as regards their children). Unfortunately the US has seen the total embrace of Goebbels' Big Lie as a method of argument. While I think at least one of yours (the same who eliminated the News of the World) had much to do with popularizing that, it seems to have been embraced by both major U.S. parties without hesitation or even acknowledgment of the source. We once had giants on both sides too; now I'm damned if I can recall a single Senator of either party who has some stature since Kennedy died. (Yes, Chappaquidick; yes, many thought his ideas wrong; but he was respected among many of the Old Guard, Democrats and otherwise, and for me, that's the bottom line for a statesman/woman; that his colleagues fight with him but respect him, so that his influence isn't of the muddy kind we have almost exclusively now, based on money and privilege.)

Agggh. There's something in your writing which causes me to join its richness and density, which doesn't come off well for me. At any rate, it's always a pleasure to read.