Gerry McCann: Make Leveson's Proposal Law

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  The father of missing Madeleine McCann has told Sky News that the
  Government should put Lord Leveson's recommendations into law "without meddling
  and back-door deals".
  
  Writing for Sky News Online, Dr Gerry McCann said: "Anything less
  than Leveson's full recommendations will never satisfy the victims of press
  abuse."
  
  Dr McCann and his wife Kate gave evidence to Lord Justice Leveson's inquiry
  into press standards and ethics about their treatment by the media following the
  disappearance of their daughter Madeleine in May 2007.
  
  She disappeared from a holiday apartment in Praia da Luz, Portugal, shortly
  before her fourth birthday and the family has been the subject of high-profile
  press coverage ever since.
  
  The McCanns were among dozens of witnesses who gave evidence to Lord Leveson
  in the wake of the 2011 phone-hacking scandal which ultimately led to the
  closure of the News Of The World Sunday tabloid.
  
  The Leveson
  Report proposed that a new press regulator needed statutory
  underpinning if it were to be truly independent.
  
  But Prime Minister David Cameron has argued against the need for new
  legislation to bring the press to heel.
  
  The Conservatives have unveiled plans for a Royal Charter which Culture
  Secretary Maria Miller said would allow the principles in Lord Leveson's report
  to be "implemented swiftly and in a practical fashion".
  
  She said: "I have grave concerns about a press bill and am not convinced that
  it is necessary on the grounds of principle, practicality or necessity."
  
  But Dr McCann, who is active in the Hacked Off campaign, was critical of the charter
  proposal saying: "The Conservative party can't rewrite Leveson now."
  
  Hacked Off earlier dismissed the Charter plan as "a surrender to press
  pressure" and reiterated its call for Lord Leveson's recommendations to be
  implemented in full.
  

tanszi wrote:ok move on find the next bandwagon to jump on. jimo. this is what happens when you go out and leave small children unattended. it doesnt mater what is done reputation, character and anything that was good went that night and it cannot be undone. as for victims, the only one in this case is Madeleine jimo. Im going to read the summing up of the PJ, what did it say again about the parents?

cass wrote:gerry and kate you were happy to have a week long press in the sun -- bleating on about nothing being done now you got a review -- you got kates booowk some press -- dont bite the hand that feeds you gerry -- what goes around comes around -- and one day the press might just bite back

Keela wrote:God, he's a jerk.

The End Is Nigh wrote:

Keela wrote:God, he's a jerk.

Or, as he himself would put it

"Jerk, I'm a God"

Keela wrote:God, he's a jerk.

tanszi wrote: