Whatever Leveson concludes – and he told Diamond it was not a simple "binary decision" between statutory government regulation and self-regulation – this inquiry will mark the end of a callous, stop-at-nothing way of doing journalistic business.
"As far as I can see, it is absolutely clear that Raoul Moat was a callous murderer-full stop, end of story-and I cannot understand any wave, however small, of public sympathy for this man.
Business owners would have seemed callous asking rescue workers to stop their desperate dig for human remains to collect the papers.
But we will never stop challenging a callous, profit-centered private health care industry and will continue to campaign for a more humane health care model as in an expanded, fully funded system of Medicare for all.
Call me when popular culture stops celebrating the callous, the crass, the immature, and the violent.
The fight for justice for the City Link workforce, and for regulations to stop this kind of callous disregard for working people and their families, goes on".
As Sharpless, the robust baritone Dwayne Croft was powerless to stop Pinkerton from his callous courtship of the trusting geisha Butterfly.
The district attorney's declaration may tidy up a public narrative that's taken on a life of its own and blurred the line between villains and victims, painting Pham as the one who threw the first punch, her friends as obstacles to justice and the witnesses to her beating as callous observers who did nothing to stop the brawl.
"This callous, this cold-blooded killing, it must stop," said President Bush.
If I stay I look callous.
This seems nearly callous, but that's the point.
