**from Inforrm The press is always at its ugly worst when it is reporting on issues which affect its own interests. Its self-image as a fearless crusader, speaking truth to power, is put to one side as it spins and distorts in accordance with the wishes of its proprietors. A majority of the population supports… Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The chairman of the Press Complaints Commission has been asked to keep Leveson informed of his progress on drawing up plans for a new regulator. Lord Hunt explained some of his proposals for a new regulator for the industry during his evidence at the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon. Robert Jay QC, inquiry counsel, asked Hunt… Read more »
You do not become Lord Chief Justice without being very bright indeed and awfully judicious. But if I may be so bold, I’d like to suggest that he might have made quite an important error in his speech last week about reform of press self-regulation. Lord Judge, in his defence of the current system of… Read more »
