Proposal for press adjudicator
February 24, 2012 | Posted 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 [...]
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 [...]
Watergate-Hackgate-Guardian debate
September 30, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
At the age of 67, almost 40 years after Watergate and 35 years after All the President’s Men, Carl Bernstein is still full of spark. Speaking at the Guardian debate – ‘After Hacking: how can the press restore trust?’ – [...]
Reform of press self-regulation – a spectrum of possible models
September 29, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
One of the few benefits of breaking a bone while you’re on holiday is that you get to spend time thinking. That’s what I tried to do last month, as I sat with my broken metatarsal raised above hip level, [...]
Why a professional registry of journalists is a bad idea
September 27, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
Politicians are a strange breed. One minute they are nodding and agreeing with you, and the next they say something which goes so against what you just said you wonder if they were listening at all. Ivan Lewis, shadow culture [...]
Unanswered questions a ‘PCC Plus’ needs to answer
September 12, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
Roy Greenslade makes a number of valid and helpful points in his proposal to come up with a ‘PCC Plus’ (link here). In particular he notes the experience and conscientiousness of the current PCC secretariat (i.e. those who run the [...]
MST response to Baroness Buscombe statement
July 29, 2011 | Posted by Media Standards Trust
The Media Standards Trust believes the decision of Baroness Buscombe not to continue beyond her current term as chair of the Press Complaints Commission is the right one. As we have previously argued, the fundamental problems of the PCC are [...]
Self-regulation: recommendations for reform
July 25, 2011 | Posted by Thais Portilho-Shrimpton
Last week the Prime Minister announced the formation of a judge-led public inquiry into journalistic practices and the relationship between the press and politicians, and the press and the police. At the same time he called for a radical reform [...]
Reforming the PCC: babies and bathwater
July 19, 2011 | Posted by Martin Moore
Politicians, lawyers and some journalists have lined up to attack the PCC over the last fortnight. The Prime Minister said that “the way the press is regulated today is not working” and that we need “a new system entirely”. The [...]
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