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Hugh Grant says time to stand up to media bullying | Reuters
He's absolutely right, but I don't see what can be done, really.
"A free press is of course a cornerstone of democracy," Grant told a packed London court room. "I just think that there has been a section of our press that has become toxic over the last 20 or 30 years.
"Its main tactic being bullying, intimidation and blackmail. And I think it's time that this country found the courage to stand up to this bully now."
The disclosure in July that phone hacking at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World had stretched from celebrities to murder victims provoked a national outcry that led to the closure of the newspaper.
Within days, his News Corp group withdrew its bid to buy the 61 percent of broadcaster BSkyB it did not already own; its British newspaper arm News International shut the 168-year-old paper and Prime Minister David Cameron ordered the inquiry.
He's absolutely right, but I don't see what can be done, really.