The UK is wet and chilly again, summer is over. Even London’s barristers’ chambers are showing signs of being populated in readiness for the start of Michaelmas term. Before confronting the long slog until Christmas, some reflections upon summer holidays. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: September 2013 (Page 2 of 3)
Editors, we hear, are filing one by one through the door of Downing Street, bending the Prime Minister’s ear about royal charters and press regulators. You must do something, they warn him, or there will be an impasse, a stalemate. They are wrong. There is no impasse; there is a process. Continue reading
The current paradigm of electronic communication governance in the UK consists mainly in promoting competition to ensure that consumers can choose the services they prefer. In areas – such as public service media – where markets fail, or where an agreed public interest is thereby served, public provision or specific regulations protect key interests. Continue reading
Entirely predictably, the people who dominate the press industry are ploughing ahead with ‘IPSO’, their go-it-alone scheme for self-regulation on their own terms, periodically boasting about the great progress they are making. Continue reading
The Government has announced a consultation on proposals to extend “qualified one way costs shifting” (QOCS) to defamation and privacy claims, This follows the Government’s acceptance of a recommendation of Lord Justice Leveson that costs protection should be extended to media related litigation (Recommendation 74, Executive Summary, page 44 [pdf]).
The campaign against the spread of online rumours and false information in China continues to escalate. In the wake of a swathe of articles, amongst others in Red Flag Magazine, earlier announcements by the State Internet Information Office and the prosecution of a number of news websites, the Supreme People’s Court and Supreme People’s Procuratorate have introduced a judicial interpretation (original/our translation) that expands criminal liability to include a number of online activities. Continue reading
Two surveys published in the last two months confirm in stark terms what other surveys and polls have been telling us: the public doesn’t trust the press. Continue reading
The biggest name in Australian sport this year is not a footballer, a cricketer or even an athlete. The biggest name in Australian sport is Dr Stephen Dank, a “sports scientist”. He is not a medical doctor, but in 2011 and 2012, he was brought in to help at least two clubs: the Essendon Football Club in the AFL and the Cronulla Sharks in the NRL, the National Rugby League. Continue reading
Back in 1999, Scott McNealy, then CEO of Sun Microsystems, told journalists that privacy was dead. “You have zero privacy anyway,” he said, “Get over it.”
In internet terms, 1999 was a very long time ago. It was before Facebook even existed. Before the iPhone was even a glint in Steve Jobs’ eye. Google was barely a year old. And yet even then, serious people in the computer industry had already given up on privacy. Continue reading
Proposed new guidance [pdf] recommends that decisions of the family courts should always be published, unless there are compelling reasons against publication. Sir James Munby, President of the Family Division of the High Court, has issued the proposed guidance to facilitate the “need for greater transparency” in the family courts. Continue reading
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