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 »
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Why delay? Lord Fowler challenges Government over Royal Charter
The following is a speech given in the House of Lords on May 13th by Lord Fowler, former Cabinet minister and former journalist. He speaks of the ‘barrage of black propaganda’ put out by newspapers, notes that the public is behind change and calls on the Government not to delay the implementation of changes already approved… Read more »
Newspaper Society “Local Editors Survey” – Unscientific and Misleading
The Newspaper Society represents the local and regional media which, everyone agrees, are an essential feature of the democratic landscape. The Society tells us that there are 1,100 local and regional newspapers read by nearly 31 million people a week. Local newspapers are said to be more than twice as trusted as any other media channel. Unfortunately, Newspaper Society… Read more »
What do you do when journalism turns against the public?
by Brian Cathcart Last month the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) wrote to David Cameron asking him to think again about the Royal Charter approved by Parliament and arguing that authoritarian regimes around the world could see it as an excuse to introduce statutory media controls. I wrote in reply making clear that such regimes could only… Read more »
Study of Leveson coverage shows press bias
The Media Standards Trust has published the first comprehensive review of the UK press coverage of the Leveson Inquiry. Here are some of its findings: 1. Over 2,000 articles and over one million words were published on the Inquiry between July 2011 and November 2012 – 73% of them during the period of oral hearings; 2…. Read more »
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 »