Initial impressions of PCC Governance Review

My initial impression of the Panel's report was of disappointment. I was busy with other matters when the eagerly awaited report was published, but I did note comments on it in various places and these had to suffice until I was able to devote more time to reading the 26 page report. An index to the whole report would have been extremely useful. I would then have been able to double check several subjects, notably any reference to "Head Lines" as such and I did not see a section headed, for example, "The rights of Complainants".

In appendix three there are 75 recommendations as evidence of the hard work that the panel members must have exerted. My impression is that a few ripples may have been created on the surface of the PCC's pond, surely there was scope for a large wave or two, or even a tsunami. The latter, in the form of Government regulation, maybe the only force that will wipe out the downside of the power of the press.

Frederick W Gilling Wednesday 28 July 2010