article_snippet.sent: Tom O'Carroll, a leading member of the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange (above), has joined the supporters of the media pressure group Hacked Off .
article_snippet.sent: Hacked Offthe media pressure group Hacked Off.
article_snippet.sent: Tom O’Carroll, a former Open University information officer and formerly a key activist for PIE, attended a Hacked Off rally in the Houses of Parliament on February 25 to lobby MPs for state involvement in media regulation.
article_snippet.sent: The organisation, set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal, is campaigning against what it sees as the ‘biased and unfair’ Independent Press Standards Organisation.
article_snippet.sent: it wants MPs to set up a statutory body to regulate the press, as recommended by the Leveson Inquiry.
article_snippet.sent: The news that O’Carroll is a backer of Hacked Off will be an embarrassment to the media pressure group Hacked Off.
article_snippet.sent: O'Carroll was on The NCCL's gay rights sub-committee. 
article_snippet.sent: O'Carroll wrote a blog after the February meeting, chaired by comedian John Cleese, confirming O'Carroll attendance.
article_snippet.sent: A Hacked Off spokesman said that the February meeting was ‘open to and free for all members of the public to attend’.
article_snippet.sent: O'Carroll attended a Hacked Off rally in the Houses of Parliament on February 25 to lobby MPs for state involvement in media regulation, which comedian John Cleeseleft; right in Fawlty Towers) chaired .
highlights_snippet.sent: Tom O’Carroll went to rally in Houses of Parliament on February 25 .
  