Off the hook
Will the producers behind the premium-rate phone scams now be individually prosecuted in the wake of ITV's £4m fine?
(a) Since ITV has now been punished there's no need to investigate any further
(b) Making a scapegoat out of Simon Cowell and/or Ant and Dec - that is if they're guilty of course - may please a fair number of people but the Government doesn't want to upset its media friends so that won't happen
(c) Charles Allen ought to be put on trial for systemic fraud but the Government doesn't want to upset its media friends so that won't happen
(d) Ofcom doesn't want to investigate individual cases because Ofcom/the Government doesn't want to upset its media friends
(e) All not guilty, m'lud
(f) All of the above
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