Britain urged to regulate press after phone-hacking scandal

A judicial probe into British press ethics called Thursday for tougher self-regulation, backed by law, after a scandal over phone hacking which "wreaked havoc with the lives of innocent
people."
In his scathing report, Lord Justice Leveson condemned "decades of
outrageous behaviour" by newspapers that were "reckless in
prioritizing sensational stories" irrespective of the harm they did, dpa reported.
To curb the excesses, Leveson, a retired judge, urged the
government to introduce legislation for a "genuinely independent and
effective system of self-regulation" of the British press.
-- SPA