For the past five weeks Britain has been holding the Leveson Inquiry into media ethics. The purpose of this little charade is to restrict the freedom of the British press both by intimidating all the people who work in it and making sure that all news coverage in the country has been replaced by wall to wall coverage of this nonsense. The inquiry was started after allegations that the News of the World hacked into the mobile phone of murdered school girl Milly Dowler and published the diary of world renowned murderer Kate McCann without out her consent. Both of these allegations have now been proved to be untrue but on the inquiry trundles on regardless calling a succession of celebrities as witnesses in a never ending quest for attention.
Today (20/12/11) it called former News of the World editor and now genuine Hollywood celebrity Piers Morgan who finally treated this joke with the contempt it deserved. Every time he was asked how his newspaper got a story he simply answered "I'm not going to reveal a source" and every time he was asked about a conversation he allegedly had he simply claimed not to remember. From now on this is how the Leveson Inquiry should be dealt with because when it actually starts putting journalists in prison people will finally start to recognise it for what it is.
Oh and I got home from the pub at around 20:10 to discover no problems. There was a small disagreement/fight in the pub but it had nothing to do with me and it started when I was outside having a cigarette so I don't even know what it was about.
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