The day's top committee business is the Culture, Media and Sport hearing on the press regulation system agreed between the parties before Easter (11.15am).
Mike Jempson, the director of the PressWise Trust, an independent body which helps people who have had problems with the press, says the system still favours the rich over the poor.
It would be salutary for the federal criminal justice system if the press were to begin asking harder questions about what prosecutors do and why.
Every one of you, even the most cynical among you, understands and cherishes the function of a free press and the preservation of our system of government and of our way of life.
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The press is our immune system of democracy.
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Back in the Commons, business opens at 9.30am with questions to the Culture Secretary, Maria Miller. again questions about the amended version of the Defamation Bill and any alternative system of press regulation unveiled by the government, may feature.
Amidst frantic manoeuvring on Thursday, the Conservatives put down amendments to the Crown and Courts Bill which would use the measure to set up the prime minister's preferred system of press regulation - paving the way for another cross-coalition confrontation of the kind first seen in January, when the two parties opposed one another over the review of parliamentary boundaries.
The government says it will also press for reform of the wage-bargaining system in the next six months.
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It hit me when I read the information on participants and figured out that even among the press there was a caste system.
The injunction they call for would have Apple take down all "Tiger" references from its web site, advertisements, all promotional materials, boxes, manuals, and software, as well as issue a press release that basically says "we're very sorry we ever even thought of using the word 'Tiger' to describe our operating system, " and that the press do the same.
Panasonic announced new high-def projectors a few days ago but because of the slow bus system here at CEDIA, we missed the press event.
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The European press derided a barbaric American health-care system that left the poor out in the cold.
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The next one, coming soon, will pit the press against politicians who believe the law should underpin any new system of regulation.
After outlining the principles contained in the South African constitution guaranteeing freedom of expression and the restrictive definition of its limits, Thloloe described the system of self-regulation of the press in force in his country.
Lord Justice Leveson's call for a system of voluntary independent self-regulation of the press posed a problem for the politicians - how to make any new system independent enough to satisfy the victims whilst at the same time making it not so independent as to convince the press to walk away and refuse to take part.
The group said in a press release from earlier that the current profit-based taxation system works as opposed to a more risky mineral value-based taxation system that Marois supports.
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Adrian Jeakings, president of the U.K. Newspaper Society trade body, said the industry is capable of establishing a "tough new system of independent, accountable press regulation with the power to investigate wrongdoing and levy fines, " without new statutes.
In particular, Jesse Norman, who spearheaded the successful rebellion against Coalition plans to overhaul the House of Lords, and George Eustice who rallied backbench support for a Leveson-style press regulation system, have been brought inside the tent.
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Commonwealth observer mission head Festus Mogae, the ex-president of Botswana, said he was not surprised that the electronic counting system failed, Associated Press news agency reports.
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"Bayer is committed to protecting its patents for Nexavar and will rigorously continue to defend our intellectual property rights within the Indian legal system, " the company said in a statement quoted by the Associated Press.
Newspaper bosses have said their proposals would introduce a rigorous system of regulation but keep the press free from state interference.
Lord Justice Leveson not only recommends statutory 'underpinning' for a new independent system of press regulation - rejecting the industry's own proposal for a new body as "not going nearly far enough" to demonstrate independence from publishers.
But the ideas that have leaked into the Japanese press suggest that the government intends to obtain funds mainly by borrowing from the state-run postal savings system, and to use them in two different ways.
The maker of the ubiquitous Windows operating system tried to put a positive spin on the announcement, including a hiring pitch in its press release.
Lord Leveson wanted "statutory underpinning" for any new system of press regulation which arose from the ashes of the phone-hacking scandal.
Pentagon officials promised to press forward with plans for more tests of the system after an interceptor missile hit a dummy warhead over the Pacific Ocean on Saturday.
But Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger told the BBC "a bit of statute" was a price worth paying for an effective new system of regulation and that he believed the press could "live with most of" the Leveson proposals.
What is proposed here is independent regulation of the press organised by the press, with a statutory verification process to ensure that the required levels of independence and effectiveness are met by the system.
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