7 February 2012
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Baroness Buscombe felt she did not have the trust of newspaper editors
The Press Complaints Commission was made a scapegoat over the phone-hacking scandal at the News of the World, the watchdog’s former chairman has said.
Baroness Buscombe, who quit last year over the scandal backlash, told the Leveson Inquiry many found it easier to attack the PCC than the press.
Among them, she said, were politicians and the newspapers themselves.
During her two years in the post, she said she lost trust in editors and felt they had not told her the truth.
“I had to question the editors on the PCC in my head. It was very difficult. These were editors I had worked with,” she added.
“I want to support a self-regulatory system because I believe there’s a real problem with the alternative, ie. state regulation, but this demands a degree of trust.”
She went on to voice concerns that the Newspaper Publishers’ Association and the Newspaper Society had been “silent” throughout the scandal, yet should have been acting as “overarching” bodies.
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