How the press has failed to represent the public mood over Leveson
22.03.13 by Gordon Ramsay
In the past five months there have been eight consecutive opinion polls [Update: this has now risen to nine - see end of post] that flatly contradict the editorial position taken by the overwhelming majority of British national newspapers on...
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An analysis of the Delaunay Deal
07.12.12 by Martin Moore
This week it was reported that the editors of the national newspapers had made great strides towards accepting the vast majority of Leveson’s recommendations. The Guardian reported that the broadsheet and tabloid editors ‘agreed at a breakfast summit to 40...
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Et tu, FT?
01.11.12 by Martin Moore
One of the most disappointing things about Tuesday’s FT leader column, ‘Leveson, the British press and the law’, is not that it parrots the self-interested arguments made by other papers (though it does), or that its logic is inconsistent (though...
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Letter to the FT
31.10.12 by Martin Moore
This letter was sent to the Financial Times on Tuesday 30th October in response to the leader ‘Leveson, the British media and the law’. It has has not – as yet – been published. Update: letter published in the FT...
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Why Leveson won’t opt for the Irish model of press regulation
30.10.12 by Martin Moore
… and what the ‘Irish model’ actually means Saturday’s Times newspaper claimed it knew the answer to the million dollar question – what is Lord Justice Leveson going to recommend? The judge, the paper said, would reject pure self-regulation and...
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A misleading defence of press freedom
25.10.12 by Martin Moore
In today’s Telegraph, an editorial by Tim Luckhurst argues for a continuation of press self-regulation and asserts that both the Hacked Off campaign and the Media Standards Trust are ‘are determined to blur the distinction between statutory regulation and self-regulation...
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Will tighter regulation give a green light to enemies of free speech?
24.10.12 by Martin Moore
This is the text of a talk I gave as a contribution to a panel debate at the Commonwealth Club on Tuesday 23rd October, organised by the Commonwealth Journalists Association. The other members of the panel were Lord Black of...
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In Response to Roy Greenslade’s BJR Article
13.09.12 by Gordon Ramsay
The atmosphere surrounding the Leveson Inquiry is, quite understandably, somewhat febrile and apprehensive. Uncertainty around the potential upheavals to regulation of the press is prompting speculation evoking outcomes ranging from the extremes of optimistic post-Murdoch utopianism to the spectre of...
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‘Enforced self-regulation’ – what can the Leveson Inquiry learn from Australia ?
05.03.12 by Gordon Ramsay
The Australian Independent Inquiry’s overall recommendation for a unified multiplatform regulator goes far beyond the remit of Leveson, but their model of ‘Enforced Self-Regulation’ provides some useful ideas for the future shape of UK non-broadcast media regulation. On 28th February...
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Proposal for press adjudicator
24.02.12 by Martin Moore
Today the Financial Times reports (£) on a new proposal submitted to the Leveson Inquiry for a system to replace the Press Complaints Commission. The proposal is written by Hugh Tomlinson QC and emerged out of roundtable discussions organized by the...
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