What Leveson doesn’t say

By on December 6, 2012 in Uncategorized

My ABC Drum column this week is on the Leveson Report – and what it doesn’t tell us:

If you want to know what actually happened in the British phone hacking scandal, you won’t find it in the Leveson inquiry report released last Thursday.

The report comprises almost 2,000 pages; it’s spread across four volumes and has 59 separate chapters. It has a lot of stuff about media history and ethics and philosophy; a lot of hand-wringing about press “culture” and personal friendships between Fleet Street and Westminster.

But not a lot about who committed what crime and when.

About Chris Berg

Chris Berg is a Research Fellow with the Institute of Public Affairs. He is a regular columnist with the Sunday Age and Sydney Morning Herald, and ABC's The Drum, covering cultural, political and economic issues. He is an award-winning former editor of the IPA Review. His latest book is In Defence of Freedom of Speech: from Ancient Greece to Andrew Bolt. A monograph, The Growth of Australia's Regulatory State, was published in 2008. He is also the editor of 100 Great Books of Liberty (with John Roskam) published by Connor Court Publishing in 2010, and The National Curriculum: A Critique (2011).
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