Rupert Murdoch has claimed he was “overly emotional” in comments he made about the police investigation into alleged payments by journalists to public officials that were secretly recorded and reported in Private Eye and by Exaro News (see Press Gazette on the chronology of the story here). Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: July 2013 (Page 2 of 5)
Injurious falsehood has enjoyed a resurgence in recent times, often pleaded alongside defamation … But as Gail Noe points out, it’s notoriously difficult to establish
Despite being described as a “rare and anomalous” tort, injurious falsehood has undergone a resurgence in popularity in recent times. Continue reading
The Financial Times has declared qualified support for proposals by national newspaper proprietors for self-regulation that fall far short of the recommendations of the Leveson Report. Its editorial (£) on the subject, however, reveals that this support is founded on a long list of misunderstandings and errors. Below is our analysis, with the words of the FT’s editorial in italics. Continue reading
The Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”) has issued a series of bad privacy decisions on complaints by Chris Huhne and Carina Trimingham against five newspapers about the publication of photographs showing them in the grounds of an open prison. The PCC found that these long lens photographs of the couple in a private place did not invade their privacy. Continue reading
On Monday 8 July 2013 four news publishing associations – the Newspaper Society, the NPA, the Scottish Newspaper Society and the PPA – released plans for a new body to replace the PCC called the ‘Independent Press Standards Organisation’ (IPSO). These plans ‘follow the criteria set out in the Royal Charter put forward by the industry’. In other words, they are based on the criteria in the PressBoF Royal Charter submitted to the Privy Council on 30 April 2013 – not the cross-party Royal Charter passed by Parliament on 18 March 2013. Continue reading
This morning’s FT Editorial (£) repeats a myth we hear all the time: that the cross-party royal charter was “assembled over pizza in the early hours of the morning”. A deal was thrown together – so the story goes – late at night in Ed Miliband’s office with Hacked Off in the room and the press totally excluded. Continue reading
Meeting of the Privy Council
The Privy Council is in the news following the unfortunate decision of the Prime Minister to ignore a key Leveson recommendation and to constitute a “recognition body” by Royal Charter, rather than by statute. Continue reading
“The Rogue Element of the Private Investigation Industry and Others Unlawfully Trading in Personal Data“. The first version Serious Organised Crime Agency report (2008) was made public in July 2012. It said (p.5) there was evidence that private investigators were Continue reading
In Oriental Press Group Ltd & Others v Fevaworks Solutions Ltd & Others [2013] HKCFA 47, the Hong Kong Court of Final Appeal held that an internet forum provider is not like a notice board owner and not a first or main publisher, but qualifies as a subordinate publisher entitled to rely on the defence of innocent dissemination. Continue reading
There are only a few things as widely spread, taught and cherished as the Greek mythology. The endless tales of anthropomorphic gods have long been parts of the ancient Greek heritage to the world. Contemporary Greece however is shifting the focus away from creating myths to debunking them: Public Broadcasting Services (PBS) is the latest example. Continue reading
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