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MST/Hacked Off statement on Paul Dacre’s Leveson Inquiry appearance

February 6, 2012   |   Posted by Media Standards Trust

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The Hacked Off campaign and the Media Standards Trust categorically refute Paul Dacre’s baseless accusations that we have “attempted to hijack” the Leveson Inquiry by somehow putting pressure on Hugh Grant, a supporter of the Hacked Off campaign, to “wound” [...]

Paul Dacre at Leveson - from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/oct/12/paul-dacre-leveson-speech

The story most papers missed: Dacre calls for statutory backstop

October 13, 2011   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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Talk about missing the story. The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, The Guardian, even Newsnight all failed to lead with the genuinely newsworthy aspect of Wednesday’s Leveson Inquiry seminars. The Sun highlighted Paul Dacre and Kelvin MacKenzie’s attacks on [...]

City Phonehacking

A defence of phone hacking, from ex-NotW journalist

October 6, 2010   |   Posted by Martin Moore

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Paul McMullan is probably not the best defender of press freedom. His arguments are muddled and contradictory. He puts forward moral arguments for privacy intrusion, but then confesses to having no moral sense. Yet he is worth listening to, partly [...]


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