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 [...]
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 [...]
Press reform: a local view
July 18, 2011 | Posted by Jeremy Condliffe
Calls for reform of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) should be being viewed with alarm by the regional press. On the face of it, based on the News of the World’s atrocious behaviour in hacking into the phones of the [...]
Is it possible that we’ll never know the truth about phone hacking?
April 15, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
There is a chance that, despite The Guardian’s investigations, despite the civil claims, despite the police inquiry, and despite the various Commons committee inquiries, we – the public – may never find out what actually happened at the News of [...]
MST fully supports fresh calls for independent inquiry
April 11, 2011 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust today, Monday 11th April, gives its full support to calls for an independent public inquiry into phone hacking across the British news media. Lord Fowler last week called for an independent inquiry into a “total abuse [...]
The Burton Copeland Files
January 28, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
In trying to work out how far phone hacking spread at the News of the World people have, understandably, focused on the Mulcaire papers and the court records. But there would appear to be another set of records that have [...]
Oh for those lazy hazy crazy days of summer
January 21, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
News International must be hankering after the balmy days of summer 2010. Back last June they appeared to have successfully weathered the phone hacking story, despite the valiant efforts of The Guardian’s to keep the story alive in 2009. The [...]
MST makes ‘FoI’ request for PCC/News of the World correspondence
September 7, 2010 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust has today, 7th September, called on the Press Complaints Commission to release its correspondence with the News of the World from its second investigation into allegations of phone-hacking (conducted in 2009), and any correspondence relating to [...]
Why we need a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking saga
| Posted by Martin Moore
Last Friday the Media Standards Trust backed calls for a judicial inquiry into the phone hacking allegations at the News of the World. We did this for three – all rather practical – reasons: 1. Only a judicial inquiry, which [...]
Media Standards Trust fully supports calls for independent judicial inquiry into phone-hacking allegations
September 3, 2010 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust today, Friday 3rd September, gives its full support to calls for a judicial inquiry into the allegations of phone-hacking at the News of the World. Tom Watson MP, a member of the Culture, Media and Sport [...]
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