Amy Davidson is wary of David Cameron's push to reexamine press regulations. She maintains that the scandal is "above all, a political one":

It looks from here like the Guardian, another newspaper, did the tireless investigative work that exposed the News of the World's practices, while public officials at every level were intimately involved in them. If the Guardian did the work that the government failed to do, is the lesson there really that the press should have less power, and the government more?