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Originally Posted by Damien

I have to say I am loving this. It seems we will have a lot of corruption dealt with in the police, especially those who work too closely with the media for personal gain, and a much healthier relationship should hopefully be put in it's place. There needs to be a relationship but it's meant to be the media helping the police in investigations and the police in turn providing deep background for the journalists reporting the cases. It's not meant to be an additional revenue stream for police by selling privates details of people's lives.

It looks like Murdoch will never wield the same degree of power he has had over successive governments. He could never swing an election but he certainly was a powerful, but expensive, campaigning tool for successive governments. He probably got quite a lot in return from Labour and the Tories over the years to the determent of UK citizens who do not own a media empire.

Hopefully we will also get a more effective PCC and a more responsible press as well. All the while it appears there will be a slew of people who have contributed to the police/media corruption - which really is a bigger deal than I think we have been stating - and the phone hacking removed from their posts. Maybe even seeing the inside of a prison cell.

I really hope there will be a better country at the end of all this awaiting us. One in which the media are held to the same standards they hold others too.

Here, here.