Throughout the Leveson process newspaper publishers and editors have been extolling the virtues of freedom of the press while casting themselves as tribunes of that freedom.Critics, by contrast, have sought to show that the freedom exercised by press proprietors weighs heavily in their favour. In effect, the freedom they enjoy is denied to others. Now Hilary Mantel, the novelist, has accused newspapers of compromisin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03AM on March 6, 2014