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I'm not sure @Fox ever will realise it. And that's why the mainstream press will never improve, they really don't understand the public's view of them and genuinely think they are doing a good thing.
Writing and doing what they like, justifying it purely by saying it's what people want to read. It's fucking horrible.
To reduce the phone hacking thing to Max Moseley says it all. What about Millie Dowler?
Still, as you say, to everyone outside the press you win and @Fox loses. Hopefully he'll realise that at some point.
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To be clear, I do think that elements of the press do an extremely valuable job.
But the sort of "reporting" I was referring to isn't one of them.
My "I win" comment was intended to be light-hearted, but I do need all teh internet points I can get.
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I'm not defending unacceptable behaviour or journalists writing and doing what they like, or justifying it purely by saying it's what people want to read.
But if you go after the bad outlets most ways of doing that are blunt instruments and you'll end up going after the good ones too.
On the specific point of death knocks, I don't believe that the majority of the public think that sympathetic, well-handled ones should be banned. The former chair of the PCC said in post that "it's absolutely legitimate and right to report on the death of someone in the community" and "absolutely in the public interest that people know how members of the community have died".
Death knocks aren't some terrible, out-there journalistic practice. That was my main point.
Scilly.Suffolk
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tl/dr
I won, you just haven't realised it yet.
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