Rusbridger Quits PCC
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has resigned from PCC code committee Press watchdog had criticised the Guardian's coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking affair.
Last week, after the PCC published its report on its inquiry into the Guardian's News of the World phone-hacking story, Rusbridger said: "This report is worse than pointless, it's actually rather dangerous to the press."
He added that the police, MPs and lawyers had taken the lead in investigating the News of the World's activities.
"If you have a self-regulation system that's finding nothing out and has no teeth, and all the work is being done by external people, it's dangerous for self-regulation. If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation,"
Rusbridger said.
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