Mail attacks freedom of the Press

The Mail uses its editorial this morning to launch an attack on freedom of the press.

Under the headline

Publish and be damned!

"The cack-handed legal attempts to keep information about the cash-for-honours inquiry out of the public eye have, to put it mildly, not been the judiciary's finest hour.
Indeed, the original gagging order against the BBC only succeeded in raising interest in the tortuous and possibly criminal activities of some of those closest to Tony Blair to fever pitch.
The judgment itself was byzantine. The actual order was granted - although a bid to prevent the injunction being reported was rejected. Then it was partially allowed.
Then permission was given for a bit more to be revealed. And yesterday, after all that, the Attorney General agreed that the whole thing could be published anyway. "

Followed by another attack by its editor Paul Dacre appearing in front of the constitutional affairs committee.According to Press Gazette he:

"accused judges of not backing newspapers in defending press freedoms against a creeping privacy law."