Phone hacking: Ed Miliband calls for inquiry into press abuses

[cal04]

Exclusive: Labour leader calls for review of regulation and practices after News International's admission of wrongdoing
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/apr/19/phone-hacking-ed-miliband-inquiry-press-abuses

Ed Miliband has become the first political leader to call for an independent review of newspaper regulation and practices after the admission by News International that it hacked into the phones of celebrities and politicians then failed to carry out full inquiries into the wrongdoing.

Miliband told the Guardian: "I think there does need to be a review after the police inquiries have been completed and any criminal cases that flow from it.

"I think it is in the interests of protecting the reputation of the British press that these matters should not simply be left to rest, and lessons have to be learned."

(snip)
He stressed: "The immediate priority is to have this police inquiry, for it to do its work and to get to the bottom of what really happened. We now know because News Interantional have said so the media did some things they regret. This inquiry has got to take its course and it is very important it does that".

[midnight]

1. K&R can't wait to this abuse is stopped in America... I don't

care that Obama is watching the watchers...