The corporate press has, in recent weeks, been heavily promoting an anti-Leveson campaign called “FreeThePress”. This is described by the News Media Association as a group of “Free speech campaigners and activists concerned about the threat to press freedom”. The website was set up by the Trotskyists-turned-libertarians of “Spiked” magazine but provides no details as to its members or supporters and appears to be financed by the newspapers. Continue reading

