Media analysts comment on Leveson inquiry into media ethics

Описание: (29 Nov 2012) SHOTLIST
1. Member of Parliament Chris Bryant holding up a copy of Leveson report in front of mass of photographers
2. Cutaway of photographers
3. Close of report in Bryant's hands, tilt up to Bryant
4. Close of photographers
5. Wide of Queen Elizabeth II Centre where Lord Leveson announced his findings
6. Media commentator and former tabloid editor Paul Connew (left) walking with colleague
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Paul Connew, media commentator and former tabloid editor:
"For the first time since 1695 we have the intervention of the law in the press in the UK. De facto it is a form of licensing, a form of statutory underpinning. Underpinning - a euphemism I suppose, because this is not going to please the British press who are, to varying degrees, totally opposed to any introduction of statute."
8. Reverse shot of Leveson witness and former Formula One boss Max Mosley speaking to reporters
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Max Mosley, Leveson witness and former Formula One boss:
"No, I think there's no question of changing the freedom of the press here, because nothing he's suggested in any way impacts on the freedom. What is changing is that if he gets what he wants, and there is a statue, it means that the things which the press themselves have proposed will have statutory underpinning - which will mean they will actually happen, rather than being promised and then not done, which we've had seven times already."
10. Set-up of Rich Peppiatt, Leveson witness and former tabloid reporter
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Rich Peppiatt, media analyst and former tabloid reporter:
"It's very good to see that he has roundly rejected the industry's proposals which were basically just a reworked Press Complaints Commission where the industry are still marking their own homework. This is actually going to have some real teeth, it seems. The problem is going to be how long does it take to implement."
12. Wide of media outside conference centre
STORYLINE
Media analysts were divided on Thursday over Lord Leveson's report into the ethics of the British press.
Media commentator Paul Connew, who used to edit the tabloid Sunday Mirror newspaper, said it was a dark day for the British media as it meant they would now be under legal statute for the first time in more than 300 years.
"For the first time since 1695 we have the intervention of the law in the press in the UK," he said. "This is not going to please the British press who are, to varying degrees, totally opposed to any introduction of statute."
But this view was countered by former Formula One boss Max Mosley, who successfully sued Rupert Murdoch's News International empire for invading his privacy.
Mosley, who gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry, said a properly functioning British press was the envy of the world, and denied that putting the media under statutory regulation would affect this.
"I think there's no question of changing the freedom of the press here, because nothing he's suggested in any way impacts on the freedom," Mosley said.
"What is changing is that if he gets what he wants, and there is a statue, it means that the things which the press themselves have proposed will have statutory underpinning - which will mean they will actually happen, rather than being promised and then not done."
Mosley's view was broadly backed by another Leveson witness, former tabloid reporter turned media analyst Rich Peppiatt.
Peppiatt said Leveson had struck the right balance between doing too much and too little. The key issue, he said, was that Leveson had focused on the need to put media regulation on a statutory footing.


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