{"id":70707,"date":"2013-01-22T10:17:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=70707"},"modified":"2013-01-22T10:17:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T10:17:49","slug":"levesons-chief-inquisitor-calls-uk-press-most-unruly-and-irreverent-in-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/levesons-chief-inquisitor-calls-uk-press-most-unruly-and-irreverent-in-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Leveson&#8217;s Chief Inquisitor Calls UK Press &#8216;Most Unruly And Irreverent In World&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The lead counsel to the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Leveson&amp;x=14&amp;y=3\">Leveson<\/a><\/span> inquiry\u00a0into newspaper standards and ethics,\u00a0<a title=\"More from guardian.co.uk on Robert Jay\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/law\/robert-jay\">Robert Jay<\/a>, has described the British press as &#8220;the most unruly and irreverent in the world&#8221;.\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">The QC also dismissed as &#8220;scaremongering&#8221; concerns that statutory recognition of a new press regulator would be a slippery slope. 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