Seemed to me like the biggest non-sequitur I’d ever come across: moving from a large bias in favour of the defendant (conveniently ignoring that the whole principle only works if the the persons libelled can afford to bring a case against a large news organisation in the first place), to having the PCC given teeth and run by judges and/or appointees rather than being an elephant’s playground for old tabloid journalists and industry heads.

And you know what else? Bloggers need to be subject to a more powerful council too. Spreading half truths and lies around and only having immunity because you don’t have the money to be sued or you can hide behind anonymity is becoming more and more common. There’s going to have to be a change, and it’ll be in the favour of the mainstream and the gatekeeper’s chain of accountability to have that change.

The FSA isn’t run by the leading bankers, Ofgem isn’t run by the heads of the power industry and Ofcom isn’t run by Ian Livingston or Jim Mooney, so why does the press watchdog get to be run by Dacre et al?