The Leveson Inquiry moves on today to the stage where the public can [hypothetically] relate to the need for more control over the media a robust code of ethics in journalism.
Christopher Jefferies, the landlord wrongly accused of Joanna Yeates' murder will relate how some papers destroyed his reputation. Singer Charlotte Church is scheduled to describe how the News of the World ran a story about her father having an affair despite knowing her mother had just attempted suicide.
A late addition to the programme is Guido Fawkes (Paul Staines) who will be summoned to explain how he obtained the text of Alastair Campbell’s evidence - due to be delivered to the inquiry later this week. Guido insists he came by the papers legally.
Such happenstance is to be expected but rumblings are aleady heard off screen that the process is in danger of becoming just the kind of spectacle that the tabloids relish.
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