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Press Complaints Commission: Daily Mail breached The Editors’ Code

September 4, 2014 By Media Reform Coalition

by Jon Danzig     The Press Complaints Commission has ruled that the Daily Mail breached The Editors’ Code on accuracy with its story about buses and planes from Romania and Bulgaria to the UK being full-up and sold-out. On New Year’s Eve last year, the Daily Mail published its story headlined, ‘Sold out! Flights and buses full as Romanians and … [Read more...]

Professor James Curran comments on the Daily Mail

October 4, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

Letter to the Evening Standard The Daily Mail’s attack on Ed Miliband’s father as ‘the man who hated Britain’ because he criticised the country’s institutions and values is a replay of the McCarthyite assault on the left in the US as being un-American, during the 1940s and 1950s. It is a classic ploy: if you do not disavow your radical beliefs, you do not belong to the … [Read more...]

PROTEST: THE DAILY MAIL HATES BRITAIN

October 3, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

When: Sunday, 6 October, 12:00 Where: The Daily Mail, Young Street, W8 5EH (High St Kensington tube) Hosted by: The People's Assembly Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/247553875396192/ From the organisers: So, the Daily Mail accused Ralph Miliband - a Jewish refugee who fled the Holocaust and proudly fought the Nazis - of "hating Britain". The irony. This … [Read more...]

The Daily Mail knows all about ‘hate’

October 2, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

Des Freedman argues for a full and open debate about concentrated media power. In light of the forthcoming consideration by the government of the two rival Royal Charters, this is the first of a series of pieces on press power we will be publishing. If any single article demonstrates the abuse of press power, the Daily Mail’s hatchet job on Ralph Miliband, the father of … [Read more...]

Miranda detention part two: who decides on the public interest?

August 30, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

Yesterday we wrote about why the detention of David Miranda under anti-terror legislation was so different from the arrest of British journalists on suspicion of unlawfully obtaining information. We were writing in response to various figures who accused the critics of press abuse of hypocrisy and double standards. One of them was Brendan O’Neill, who, who made a crack about … [Read more...]

Our Media, Not Theirs: report from the Media Reform rally, 17 June

June 24, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

This post is reproduced, with kind permission, from the website of the National Union of Journalists. It does not represent our views, but does offer a fair summary of the rally that night. As the explosive events in Turkey played out on news networks and Twitter around the world, and protesters were being attacked in Taksim Square by the police, the Turkish national news … [Read more...]

Real Journalism After Leveson: how do we achieve it?

June 10, 2013 By Media Reform Coalition

This is a talk given by Angela Phillips at an event called 'After Leveson: is citizen journalism the answer?' The event was held by Citizen Journalism Educational Trust on Saturday 8 June. Angela is our Ethics Chair and the editor-in-chief of Goldsmiths-based London news website EastLondonLines. Can we start by getting rid of the title: Citizen Journalism? Journalists are … [Read more...]

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