UK tests the resilience of Freedom of the Press principles

As I write, the usually competitive chieftains of Britain’s newspaper industry are working together to fend off a measure that, if the pessimists are right, could put a brake on their treasured freedom of the press. They are attempting to frame a reliable way of controlling activities that support sensationalism, which have ranged from wiretapping to photographing the unclad derrieres of the royal, rich, and famous. Their industry comes in the wake of the disclosure, last Thursday, of a 2,000...