The Media Reform Coalition publishes today, just ahead of the first anniversary of the publication of Lord Justice Leveson’s report into press standards, a dossier on the corrosive relationship between politicians and the press as revealed by testimony to the Leveson Inquiry.
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After seven weary months and a correspondence running to more than 20,000 words, the Press Complaints Commission has made a final ‘adjudication’ about Andrew Gilligan’s ludicrous claim in the Sunday Telegraph last April that a motley bunch of academics and voluntary organisations are part of a European Union-funded conspiracy to hand control of the press to the state.
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In the wake of the Snowden intelligence leaks, the UK government’s attacks on journalists and editors for political purposes are undermining the role of a free press and its ability to hold power to account. International opposition to the government’s position is growing.
Read more...Dave Boyle writes on the root causes of the decline of local media and why Theresa May is wrong to lay blame with the BBC.
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Guy Taylor of the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants writes on sensationalism in the press and the need for accountability.
Read more...Chris Huhne (Comment, 4 November) cites the Express’s claim that “freedom of the press is cast aside after 300 years” without questioning its historical veracity. This absurd claim implies that we had a free press in 1790 when criticism of the social system was a criminal offence, and guilt or innocence could be determined solely by a judge. It suggests that we had a free press in 1850 when the stamp, advertisement and paper duties were still fixed to price newspapers beyond the reach of ordinary people. And it suggests that this embedded press freedom, hallowed by time, will come to an end with the introduction of a cheap and open system of redress for press victims, with a state-underpinned audit every few years to ensure that press self-regulation (unlike its predecessors) works.
Read more...On Tuesday 29 October, the Argentine Supreme Court ruled for the constitutionality of the 2009 Audiovisual Communication Services Act, against which Argentina’s largest media group, Grupo Clarín, had taken up a legal challenge. The ruling orders the implementation of the law which mandates that broadcast licences must be equally split between commercial, public and non-profit organisations. Clarín, which has long argued that the Act affected its property rights, must now immediately comply with the law (as the deadline for compliance has already passed), and divest itself of several cable TV licences.
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By Martin Hickman, 31 October 2013 The News of the World ordered the hacking of Milly Dowler’s phone on the same day it sympathised with her distraught parents’ anguish, the phone hacking trial heard today. Milly went missing near her home in Walton on Thames, Surrey, in March 2002, sparking a large public police investigation and a parallel, covert one at the News of the World, the Old Bailey was told.
Read more...MEDIA REFORM COALITION RESPONDS TO PM’S THREATS TO GUARDIAN As five senior journalists stand in the dock of the Old…..
Read more...By Justin Schlosberg Last week, MP’s announced plans to formally inquire into the Guardian’s coverage of the Edward Snowden leaks,…..
Read more...Weekends are supposed to be for calm reflection of the week that has passed and some rest before the challenges…..
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When: 21 November 2013, 08:30 – 13:00 Where: Johnnie Walker Room, The Caledonian Club, 9 Halkin Street, London, SW1X 7DR…..
Read more...Written by Julian Petley, Professor of Screen Media at Brunel University. Republished from The Conversation. On Monday evening, the BBC’s…..
Read more...Written by Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications at the University of Westminster. Reposted with kind permission from Huff Post UK……
Read more...Natalie Bennett is the leader of the Green Party. She was the editor of The Guardian Weekly between 2007 and 2012 and has previously…..
Read more...Written by Martin Moore. Reposted with kind permission from the Media Standards Trust. When a Mail on Sunday journalist intruded on…..
Read more...Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because…..
Read more...Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the…..
Read more...This article originally appeared at the Daily Mirror. President Obama has had enough of Rupert Murdoch. His target is the…..
Read more...Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of…..
Read more...The detention of a journalist under something called the Terrorism Act should raise eyebrows whatever the situation. It does not…..
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