The government is launching a consultation on the press industry's 'rival' Royal Charter - and we need your help to defeat it. When this new, alternative Charter appeared at the end of last month, our opinion was unambiguous: we called it the "press barons' charter". The three main parties had agreed, after intense negotiation, an instrument which broadly worked; now the … [Read more...]
No, Andrew Gilligan, we do not want content regulation
Have you heard? The Media Reform Coalition is part of a plot by the European Union to take control of the British press. At least that’s what seems to be implied in an article by Andrew Gilligan in this week’s Sunday Telegraph. Normally, we turn the other cheek to these kinds of attacks. But in between the shocking revelations that media academics sometimes talk to each … [Read more...]
Job done, Lord Puttnam: the “terrible silence” is broken
By Mike Jempson In tabling his contentious amendments to the Defamation Bill, Lord Puttnam made clear that they were “designed to break that terrible silence” which had come over formal discussions of Lord Justice Leveson’s proposals for a new regulatory regime to improve ‘the culture, ethics and practice of the press’. He was certainly not the only one who feared that … [Read more...]