Listening to Kelvin Mackenzie give evidence to the Leveson Inquiry on Monday, the most striking thing was not his admission that he’d never given much thought to journalistic ethics or even his impersonation of John Major, good though it was. Rather, it was his claim that News International should have been fined for lying to the PCC about the extent of phone hacking at the News of the World. “In the end newspapers are commercial animals,” he said. “I would be in favour of fines – and heavy fines for newspapers that don't disclose the truth to the Press Complaints Commission.” (To read more, click here.)
