{"id":60630,"date":"2012-11-28T10:45:12","date_gmt":"2012-11-28T10:45:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/uncategorized\/dont-curb-freedom-leveson-urged.php"},"modified":"2012-11-28T10:45:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T10:45:12","slug":"dont-curb-freedom-leveson-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom\/dont-curb-freedom-leveson-urged.php","title":{"rendered":"Don&#39;t curb freedom, Leveson urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>28 November  2012 Last updated at  04:55 ET                                           <\/p>\n<p>          Please turn on JavaScript. Media          requires JavaScript to play.        <\/p>\n<p>      Hugh Grant: Newspapers shouldn't be ''marking their own      homework''    <\/p>\n<p>    More than 80 MPs and peers have urged the man carrying out an    inquiry into UK media standards not to recommend a press    regulation law.  <\/p>\n<p>    The cross-party group, including eight former cabinet ministers    and London Olympics chairman Lord Coe, says any such move would    damage press freedom.  <\/p>\n<p>    Lord Justice Leveson is due to publish his report on Thursday.  <\/p>\n<p>    The group, which has written to the     Guardian and the     Daily Telegraph, wants a stronger \"self-regulatory\" system.  <\/p>\n<p>    The Leveson Inquiry was established by the prime minister in    July last year and looked into the culture, practices and    ethics of the press.  <\/p>\n<p>    It was commissioned following allegations of illegal    phone-hacking at the News of the World.  <\/p>\n<p>    Prime Minister David Cameron, who has already warned    politicians not to pre-empt its findings, will receive his copy    of the report at lunchtime on Wednesday - 24 hours before its    details are made public.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow this link:<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-20517798\" title=\"Don&#39;t curb freedom, Leveson urged\">Don&#39;t curb freedom, Leveson urged<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> 28 November 2012 Last updated at 04:55 ET Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Hugh Grant: Newspapers shouldn't be ''marking their own homework'' More than 80 MPs and peers have urged the man carrying out an inquiry into UK media standards not to recommend a press regulation law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/freedom\/dont-curb-freedom-leveson-urged.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-freedom"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}