by Angela Phillips When Peter Oborne resigned from the Telegraph earlier this week, his parting outpouring of rage at the paper’s ‘fraud upon its readers’ for failing to properly report the HSBC scandal was wrong in only one discernable respect: the rot had set in before 2010 when he arrived as chief political commentator and long before the advent of Jason Seiken as … [Read more...]
Would independent regulation have “shackled” the press?
We wouldn't want to shackle the press. Not us. So when, over the weekend, the Free Speech Network asked: "If the press was shackled would any of this ever have happened?" - and juxtaposed the question with six famous newspaper scoops - we were compelled to find out. Read on to find out how the proposals of Media Reform match up with the examples the FSN provides. … [Read more...]