by Gordon Ramsay Recent reports in a number of national newspapers that the supporters of the PressBoF Charter have offered a significant concession by removing an industry veto on appointments to the Board of a new self-regulator raise two problems. The first, that initially appears more important, is that the veto simply doesn’t exist in the PressBoF… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Debunking
A Dacre’s Dozen – The 12 fatal flaws in the press barons’ charter
by Evan Harris In an attempt to undermine the Royal Charter on press regulation that has been agreed by all parties in Parliament, some of the big press corporations (Associated/NewsInt/Telegraph) have published their own rival charter, the “PressBoF” Royal Charter. On behalf of victims, Hacked Off is pleased that all political parties are sticking to… Read more »
The truth about the Sunday Telegraph’s Hacked Off conspiracy theory
Last week’s Sunday Telegraph published a piece by Andrew Gilligan purporting to uncover “intriguing connections between Leveson and Left-wing ideology”. The thrust of the argument? That Hacked Off is at the centre of a “network of broadly Left-liberal groups” who have been campaigning for many years to impose state control over the press. The conspiracy… Read more »
Hacked Off: What did we do? And did we win?
by Brian Cathcart Since the publication of the Leveson report last November, Hacked Off has had a simple mission: to do all we could to secure the implementation of the judgeʼs recommendations on press self-regulation. These were the measured and careful conclusions of a senior judge after he had heard, in public, the views and… Read more »
Another poll shows public in favour of press reform
by Gordon Ramsay Four days ago I wrote that eight consecutive opinion polls have shown that the press has been completely out of step with public opinion on press reform. That number can now be revised up to nine, after another Sunday Times/YouGov poll (full results here) shows that the public favours the plans proposed to reform press regulation…. Read more »
How the press has failed to represent the public mood over Leveson
by Gordon Ramsay In the past five months there have been eight consecutive opinion polls that flatly contradict the editorial position taken by the overwhelming majority of British national newspapers on press regulation. In all, eleven polls out of a total of thirteen have gone against the press’ line on statutory underpinning. This is despite… Read more »