The biggest media story of the week was the announcement by the press on 8 July 2013 of a proposed new self-regulator, the “Independent Press Standards Organisation”. We had an Inforrm news story about the announcement. Roy Greenslade’s suggested that the announcement enabled the publishers to pull off a PR coup. However, as the LSE Media Policy Blog pointed out, the newspapers did not , the newspapers themselves did not make much of it. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: July 2013 (Page 3 of 5)
For the fourth time since 2011 the owners of the big national press groups have published a new proposal for press self-regulation – and for the fourth time they have repeated what Lord Justice Leveson damningly called their ‘pattern of cosmetic reform’. Once again they talk the talk of ‘independent, effective self-regulation’, but the detail shows they still have no intention of walking that walk. Continue reading
The new managing judge in the phone hacking litigation, Mr Justice Mann, handed down an important judgment on Friday 12 July 2013. He allowed an application by the claimants for disclosure by the police in relation to the new “Operation Pinetree”. Continue reading
On 17 June 2013, the Ontario Court of Appeal in Shtaif v. Toronto Life Publishing Co. Ltd. rejected applying the “single publication rule” in Ontario and clarified the circumstances when defamation and negligence claims can be brought concurrently. Continue reading
In Part One we looked at the rhetoric of the press release issued by newspaper proprietors. Here is an analysis of their claims to have implemented Leveson in their scheme. Again those people who seek to oversee journalistic ethics are guilty of distortion, misrepresentation and worse. Continue reading
R (o.t.a Rob Evans) v. Attorney-General, Information Commissioner Interested Party, [2013] EWHC 1960 (Admin). As we all know, the Prince of Wales has his own opinions. And he has shared those opinions with various government departments. Our claimant, a Guardian journalist, thought it would be interesting and important for the rest of us to see those opinions. So he made a request under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations to see these documents. Continue reading
On 8 July 2013, sections of the press industry announced in a press release their plans to set up a self-regulator that is designed not to meet the standards required by the Leveson Report or by the Royal Charter agreed by all parties in Parliament. Continue reading
The Home Affairs Committee of the House of Commons heard evidence yesterday from Assistant Commissioner Cressida Dick and Commander Neil Basu concerning the latest position of the police investigations into phone hacking, payments to public officials and email hacking. Continue reading
The people who run our largest newspaper groups are telling us that they are above the law, above the verdicts of public inquiries and above the will of parliament. They don’t care what the public thinks and they don’t give a fig for the views of the people whose lives they have been caught trying to wreck. Continue reading
In its judgment of 25 June 2013 in the case of Youth Initiative for Human Rights v. Serbia the European Court of Human Rights has recognised more explicitly than ever before the right of access to documents held by public authorities, based on Article 10 of the Convention (right to freedom of expression and information). The judgment also recognises the importance of NGOs acting in the public interest. Continue reading
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