Tele is making it too easy for the privacy law campaigners to make a case

I did not, I must admit, feel a great deal of sympathy for former Prime Minister Paul Keating’s demand that privacy laws be rewritten before photographs of people can be published in newspapers.  

Particularly as it came just a day after the Sunday Telegraph wrote about what sounded like an entirely graceless incident involving Keating’s 27-year-old daughter apparently loudly objecting to having her picture taken while enjoying hospitality at an event being staged for the publicity.

The problem with any sort of law is that the powerful who deserve to be exposed will find any new press regulation just as useful as those who have a better case.

But for newspapers, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.