Hacked Off
I'm afraid to say it is turning into something of a celebrity event - which is always a danger with high-profile public inquiries - they tend to focus on the lawyers and participants rather than the big picture.
The most telling evidence so far - came from two ordinary people - the mother of Millie Dowler (who's case is sadly well known) and the mother of Diane Watson - a 16 year old Glasgow schoolgirl who was stabbed and killed in 1991.
Now these two stories are very different - the Millie Dowler case was about phone hacking - the Diane Watson case was about misrepresentation and lazy reporting by the press.
The Dowler family were able to fight back - because the phone hacking story gained national prominence at just the right time - the Watson family were left to fend for themselves and have paid, if anything, an even more terrible price.
Some of the celebrity witnesses have spoken very eloquently - Hugh Grant in particular acquitted himself well - but the celebs are in danger of obscuring the real picture - with another long list of household names due to appear this week.
The Leveson Inquiry is likely to establish that phone hacking was widespread at the News of the World - but extended to other newspapers as well.
Phone hacking and other similarly intrusive techniques have since been outlawed - and people can go to jail for breaking the law.
But the real issue is effective regulation of the press and media.
Which requires the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) to be swept away and replaced with a regulator that has real teeth - and the power to punish bad behaviour.
At the moment the PCC is dominated by the great and good - including far too many working newspaper editors - which is why it lacks credibility.
But it is also a paper tiger - with no ability to punish wrongdoing and bad behaviour - which requires the PCC to hit offenders where it hurts - in the pocket.
So the solution is really all very simple - reform the PCC by getting rid of the present lot and replacing them with some upstanding citizens.
Give the new PCC powers to impose hefty financial penalties - if newspapers and other media outlets publish inaccurate information - or information which has no 'public interest' defence.
Because those are the important issues - and we don't need a public inquiry lasting for months with all kinds of celebrities queueing up to tell us - what we already know.
