Privacy and Naomi
07/05/04 11:41 Ethics
So, Naomi Campbell has ushured in a privacy rule by
the back door. A judge overturned an appeal court's
verdict that it was in the public interest to have
pics of her coming out of a rehab clinic plastered
all over the Mirror. This will set a precedent
without an actual law being passed, hence the 'back
door' nature of the thing.
It's presumably just me, but it seems there's been a lot of bleating about this one - papers are having their rights infringed, we mustn't be gagged et cetera. But is there actually anything wrong with Campbell's initial assertion - that if she has a medical problem then she should have it without a paparazzi camera craning down her throat? I think not - and if self-regulation actually worked among certain elements of the press then back-door legislation like this wouldn't actually happen in the first place.
It's presumably just me, but it seems there's been a lot of bleating about this one - papers are having their rights infringed, we mustn't be gagged et cetera. But is there actually anything wrong with Campbell's initial assertion - that if she has a medical problem then she should have it without a paparazzi camera craning down her throat? I think not - and if self-regulation actually worked among certain elements of the press then back-door legislation like this wouldn't actually happen in the first place.
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