Posts Tagged: self-regulation

Martin Moore discusses Media Standards Trust proposals for new regulator at Leveson Inquiry

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The director of the Media Standards Trust has appeared at the Leveson Inquiry to discuss a two-tier proposal for press regulation. Dr Martin Moore – also a founder of the Hacked Off campaign – gave evidence today following proposed plans from the Press Complaints Commission, the Press Board of Finance and the National Union of… Read more »

Press launches Operation Megaphone to drown out Leveson Inquiry

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by Brian Cathcart So it has begun. With the big-name politicians drifting away from the Leveson inquiry and the hearings turning towards the technicalities of press regulation, the newspaper industry has finally grabbed its megaphone back and started bellowing out its message. Everybody knows it is impossible to argue with a man who has a… Read more »

Lord Hunt’s proposal: the last chance saloon again

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by Brian Cathcart Lord Hunt says he is winding up the Press Complaints Commission, of which he is chairman, and will launch a new body “with teeth”. He has discussed this planned body at the Leveson inquiry and elsewhere, and his ideas have at least four significant weaknesses. The first weakness The new body will… Read more »