16 A degree of uncertainty: aspects of the debate over the regulation of the Press in the UK since 1945
Tom O’Malley
All that makes existence valuable to anyone, depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. Some rules of conduct, therefore, must be imposed, by law in the first place, and by opinion on many things which are not fit subjects of the operation of law. What these rules should be is the principal question in human affairs; but if we except a few of the most obvious cases, it is one of those which least progress has been made in resolving (Mill 1973, p. 130).
In the United Kingdom self-regulation of the newspaper press dates from 1953. In that year the Press Council was established. Funded largely ...
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