Standards of the Press Fox can’t be trusted to guard hens
Under the NNI model, rather than statutory regulation, a Press Ombudsman and Press Council would be acknowledged in law to enable them to carry out their functions. This was one of Justice Tom Finlay's recommendations in a 1996 report on the newspaper industry.
In this climate of political sleaze it is hard to imagine a more inappropriate suggestion than advocating that politicians should govern the flow of information from newspapers to the public.