What’s wrong with real regulation, supported by a Bill of Rights and enforceable through the courts, rather than an organisation which meets behind closed doors, fails to do its duty when complaints are made and serves only its masters? Truly it has been said that he who pays the piper calls the tune.

Anybody care to mention a success achieved by the Press Council? Just one?

It is a conflicted nonfunctional failure in all ways except that it is a smoke screen in the defence of its paymasters. ‘Twould be better to put it out of its misery so that we can better view that which it has been shielding all these years.

Yes because the public and especially those defamed by our media outlets realise that the Press Council is a joke and no longer bother.

The departing Chair highlights the impossibily conflicted position in which the Council operates when he says: “…I remain as I began a strong supporter of genuinely independent press selfregulation.”

Independent selfregulation??? Independent of regulation or independent from regulation? Certainly, thie phrase is a tautology and the resulting organisation is doomed from the outset.

It’s busted. Always was. Beyond repair.

Been there. No obvious link to the APC Report. How about a link, please?

It is without real real effect, is not what it pretends to be, and hides the reality of just what it is.

It certainly is not an institution which establishes, monitors or enforces standards of journalism in this country. Perhaps its annual report could be considered to be a commentary on the year past, but it is way too little and too late for impact… not even a flogging with a feather.

Its main function is to give an appearance of being a journalistic watch-puppy, in order to disuade the creation of a real watchdog.

Analysis and commentary of the goings-on of this body are only a mental exercise, conducted from an arm chair on an outer planet, far from the world in which the press goes about its daily business.