Abstract
In a revealing interview with BJR editor Bill Hagerty, the former leader of the Labour Party describes the press as "unaccountable", "pernicious", "dangerous", "insidious" and "invidious". And Kinnock has ideas how the Press Complaints Commission could be reconstituted to help create more trust in the press. Many of his journalist friends are concerned about falling quality, he says, "so somehow a way must be found of trying to establish their standards of integrity as the norm. I actually think [we need] a non-statutory body drawn substantially from experience within the industry with the watchword being the setting of good journalistic standards of integrity and all the other requirements of fairness."
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