Cameron says media need independent regulator

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's scandal-tinged media need an independent system of regulation, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday, the day he received findings of a public inquiry into press ethics that is widely expected to advise statutory controls. The press is battling to avoid tougher statutory regulation ahead of Thursday's report by judge Brian Leveson, who was tasked with investigating media ethics after the phone-hacking affair at Rupert Murdoch's now defunct News of the World. ...