Max Clifford wants the PCC to become proactive on privacy laws to protect the ‘ordinary people’, arguing tougher rules for the press.
He used the example of the McCann’s recent case, winning libel damages worth £550,000 from Express papers that wrote numerous stories implying they murdered their daughter Maddie; however the family had financial backing.
He argues a need for funding, as there is no legal aid for defamation laws where you can only make a complaint, and any legal action would be funded by the newspaper itself.
Clifford appeared on the Daily Politics show this morning, proposing the need for a privacy law to be enforced; or the PCC becoming similar to the organisation Watchdog to protect the public.
Press intrusion for the ordinary people is becoming more sensational says Sir Menzies Campbell, due to a shrinking readership in the tabloid press and a higher competition in this particular market.
If Campbell is right, will Tabliod newspapers dissappear from the shelves and merge into the weekly gossip magazines?