Don’t worry about press regulation; the Daily Mail is going to start running a corrections column. It’s taken Paul Dacre 19 years as Mail editor to make the decision, which he announced while addressing the Leveson inquiry into media ethics — but I suppose you can’t rush these things. And it is to be commended that clarifications and corrections will be made more prominent in his very popular paper, as well as the Metro. Perhaps others will follow suit.
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