The MST at the Leveson Inquiry
February 15, 2012 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The director of the Media Standards Trust, Martin Moore, gave oral evidence to the Leveson Inquiry last Wednesday, 8 February. In addition to a written witness statement, the MST has so far submitted the following as evidence (click on the [...]
Did the PCC fail when it came to phone hacking?
| Posted by Media Standards Trust
Many within the press have argued that the Leveson Inquiry is unfortunate and unnecessary, a political distraction partly designed to divert attention from politicians’ links with News International, and a threat to press freedom. They also argue that self-regulation was [...]
PCC Statistics: A critical analysis by the Media Standards Trust
| Posted by Media Standards Trust
An analysis of the measurements of success of the PCC based on its own statistics, including an independent audit of the MST’s findings by Full Fact. The research in this report was undertaken in the first half of 2011 but [...]
Press ‘omerta’: How newspapers’ failure to report the phone hacking scandal exposed the limitations of media accountability
February 8, 2012 | Posted by Daniel Bennett and Judith Townend
“[Nick] Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure a nod of approbation from the heads of the big New York crime [...]
MST/Hacked Off statement on Paul Dacre’s Leveson Inquiry appearance
February 6, 2012 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The Hacked Off campaign and the Media Standards Trust categorically refute Paul Dacre’s baseless accusations that we have “attempted to hijack” the Leveson Inquiry by somehow putting pressure on Hugh Grant, a supporter of the Hacked Off campaign, to “wound” [...]
Did the PCC turn a blind eye to evidence that phone hacking went beyond one rogue reporter?
February 2, 2012 | Posted by Martin Moore
In his appearance at the Leveson Inquiry, the former chairman of the PCC defended the reaction of the PCC to the conviction of Clive Goodman and Glenn Mulcaire for phone hacking in 2007: Sir Christopher Meyer: “I made several statements [...]
Lord Judge’s misjudged references to press self-regulation
October 24, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
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 [...]
The story most papers missed: Dacre calls for statutory backstop
October 13, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
Talk about missing the story. The Sun, the Daily Mail, the Telegraph, The Guardian, even Newsnight all failed to lead with the genuinely newsworthy aspect of Wednesday’s Leveson Inquiry seminars. The Sun highlighted Paul Dacre and Kelvin MacKenzie’s attacks on [...]
Tabloid hacks and Trojan horses
October 7, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
The irony appeared to be lost on many of those in the room. As editor after editor at the Leveson Inquiry seminar lined up to say that the dark arts practiced at the News of the World would never happen [...]
Daily Mail complaint about composition of the Leveson panel
September 28, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
The complaint by Associated Newspapers to the Leveson inquiry that there is not enough representation of the tabloid or regional press on the panel is not unexpected, but nor is it entirely without merit. Given the inquiry’s terms of reference it [...]
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