It's been a while since my last review of media law. During that time we've seen the Snowden and NSA scandal ratchet up public anxiety about the surveillance state and received confirmation of the High Court's tough stance on defamatory tweets post-McAlpine. Not forgetting the musings of the Leveson report. Neither the industry, nor free speech organisations such as Index on Censorship, nor the political parties could agree: does the report go too far, or not far enough in curbing the intrusive behaviour of the press following the News of the World revelations?
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