The present house of cards was brought down by the illegal hacking of a child's voicemail, but this inquiry is to start the process of describing what sorts of media activity are ethical. The law has a place, but it has difficulty in keeping up with technology, and unethical people can often find a way round.
The coverage of the Peter Connelly case certainly raised ethical questions about the media. The case turned into a witch hunt of the worst sort, aimed explicitly and destructively at the key professionals concerned. I'm not suggesting that everything that was done in Haringey was right, but there was never any suggestion that anything done was corrupt or improper. And while this was a particularly tragic case, there are hundreds of child deaths that do not hit the headlines.
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