I wonder what Glen Mulcaire is doing now?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6301243.stm

Amazingly, he was being paid an annual retainer of £104,000 by the NOW while Andy Coulson, the editor at the time, didn’t know what he was doing for the money.

On the plus side, Sheridan managed to get Coulson into court. I do hope every word he said is now being investigated for possible lies and a nice purjury charge.

I have ever-increasing contempt for the PCC. They function only to pretend that there is no problem with the press. The press continue to print half-truths and often down-right lies and there is no proper recourse.

Whilst statutory regulation of the press is undesirable there are two points that I think should be made. Firstly it is not a a big paradigm shift to regulate at all, as we already (rightly) have libel laws. Secondly, the claim that such regulation would be a threat to democracy is very disingenuous. Yes, potentially there are very great risks from any kind of state interference, but the idea that what we currently have is anywhere close to fair and democratic is obscenely ridiculous. In effect the press can print what they like with almost complete impunity.

For me, though I would like to see just one statutory regulation; simply that all retractions must be placed in the same location and of the same size as the original article. I think that might just be enough to force responsibility on the editors – of which, contrary to what the Baroness professes there is essentially none at present.

Of course this is all very unlikely as the PCC is in the press’s pocket, the Tories have no intention of going against Murdoch and one of the greatest failings of the Labour party over the past 13 years is that they constantly ran away from themselves in trying to appease the Murdoch media and the DM.

AFZ

She sounds just like the sort of moron the tory party would get to protect their friends in the tory press.

It stinks, and of course the tory media is not reporting ythis, and she should have resigned but tories never resign for trying to cover things up for their corporate masters.

By the way The PCC stands for Prince Charles Press complaints.

Because they only ever bother to do anything if the poor darling Royals have been lied about.

Whilst this is interesting I don’t see how you can say that the phone hacking scandal is not close to being over.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j2mZPiB9uiZX_sbK9xwBlotroHTg?docId=CNG.9a1f542d490713273e28084042762a68.991

‘Prosecutors have said there is no evidence to bring charges over phone-hacking claims at a newspaper when it was edited by the man now employed as Prime Minister David Cameron’s media chief.’

Perhaps most interestingly, “Hoare alleged in the article in The New York Times — currently engaged in a readership battle with the Murdoch-owned Wall Street Journal — that Coulson had “actively encouraged” him to hack phone messages.

Starmer said that Hoare, “who made significant allegations in The New York Times and elsewhere, was interviewed by the police but refused to comment.”"

If he isn’t willing to back up his allegations by talking to the police then this is probably over, at least as far as Coulson is concerned.