Free press must stay (From York Press)

• "Free press...free to hack into innocent people's phones, free to intrude on private grief, free to publish lies on page 1 (and only retract them via a tiny piece on page 23)??
  
  Of course we can't have political censorship - and the revelation of MPs fiddling, financial scandals etc showed what a force for good proper investigative journalism can be.
  
  But the current PCC is clearly toothless, and any voluntary code that is unenforceable in law will be walked away from by editors/proprietors as soon as they think their interests are more important.
  
  Architects, doctors, motorists, for example, all abide by effectively 'voluntary agreements' (RIBA rules, Hippocratic Oath, Highway Code) that are backed up by legal sanctions if they be infringed - why should the press be any different?"
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