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Innocent couple vilified in Gatwick drones coverage
Innocent members of the public have once again been exposed nationwide in newspapers over a crime they did not commit. You will be familiar with the “Gatwick drones” story that dominated…
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Rod Liddle’s Sunday Times article may incite hatred, but IPSO is powerless to act
The Sunday Times has been widely condemned for running a column by Rod Liddle over the weekend in which he suggests extremists should blow themselves up in London’s Tower Hamlets, away “from…
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Shadow Home Secretary labels IPSO “toothless” at Hacked Off & MEND event
By Luke Geikie Hacked Off and MEND (Muslim Engagement and Development) co-sponsored a fringe event at the Labour Party Conference to discuss the need for independent press regulation and the importance…
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‘Muslim Fostering’: Times Journalism Utterly Discredited
By Professor Brian Cathcart The story caused a sensation but quickly fell under a cloud of doubt. Now the release of the final court judgment in the case leaves the newspaper’s reputation…
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The Press and Sir Cliff: They Have No Idea
By Brian Cathcart. The response of editors to the judgment shows them out of touch with the public and digging an ever-deeper hole of contempt for their journalism One of the…
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A dose of reality about IPSO for Matt Hancock
By Professor Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) ‘Even a cursory consideration shows it does not meet the requirements,’ says the Press Recognition Panel – after the Culture Secretary told us IPSO was…
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Matt Hancock makes himself ‘State Approver’ of press arbitration
By Professor Brian Cathcart (@BrianCathcart) A week ago the corporate papers were screaming blue murder about threats of state control. Yet now the government has given itself a real power over them…
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The government scuppers Leveson Part 2: is Britain’s press undermining democracy?
By Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster. Almost exactly five years ago, the veteran Guardian columnist Martin Kettle posed a question about where power lies in contemporary Britain.…
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IPSO’s new “compulsory arbitration” scheme: why claimants are unlikely to use it – Evan Harris
The press industry’s consumer complaints body, IPSO, has announced a new “compulsory” arbitration scheme for national newspapers. This is the third version of the IPSO arbitration scheme. The first two versions have had no…
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IPSO’s latest season of calamities – Brian Cathcart
Damned in an official report, exposed as useless by a select committee, incapable of tackling flagrant press dishonesty, caught cherry-picking complaints – the sham press regulator is blundering between disasters IPSO,…
