UK tests the resilience of its Freedom of the Press principles

For the past week, the usually competitive chieftains of Britain’s newspaper industry worked together to fend off a measure that, if the pessimists are right, could put a brake on the treasured freedom of the press. They are attempting to frame a reliable way of controlling activities that support sensationalism, which have ranged from phone hacking and wiretapping to photographing the unclad derrieres of the royal, rich, and famous. Their industry comes in the wake of the disclosure, on Nove...