Diamond Witness

Source: Reuters

I saw parts of the live stream on the UK Leveson Inquiry into Press Ethics today, and was very impressed by Anne Diamond.

As an ex-print journalist who was subsequently hounded by tabloids after she became a TV presenter, she gave a very even handed opinion on the media balance of good and evil.

Despite shocking revelations of reporters posing as doctors when she went into labour and the presence of telephoto-lensed paparazzi during her very private infant son's funeral, she acknowledged the good that tabloids and popular press could do in causes and crusades.

She said good and bad journalism went hand in hand at the moment and Diamond offered a example to how Lord Leveson can remove the bad and leave the good, citing TV as a medium that does terrific investigative journalism and also be regulated.

But can schizophrenic bastard twins really be separated?  And does killing one kill the other?

Anne Diamond's statement:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15927182