The Times newspaper greeted the start of 2017 by warning: “The freedom of the press is under direct and immediate threat.” Its Murdoch stablemate, The Sun, went further by identifying the “sinister zealots behind regulators [who] want to destroy the popular press”. Continue reading
The International Forum for Responsible Media Blog
Month: January 2017 (Page 6 of 6)
New Zealand courts heard several trials and important interlocutory battles in 2016. Political defamation cases were a feature. The most prominent case was that brought by Taxpayers’ Union director Jordan Williams against former Conservative Party leader Colin Craig. Continue reading
The corporate press has, in recent weeks, been heavily promoting an anti-Leveson campaign called “FreeThePress”. This is described by the News Media Association as a group of “Free speech campaigners and activists concerned about the threat to press freedom”. The website was set up by the Trotskyists-turned-libertarians of “Spiked” magazine but provides no details as to its members or supporters and appears to be financed by the newspapers. Continue reading
The last year was a relatively quiet one in the English media law courts, with only two defamation trials involving the media (and none involving the national press). The most high profile case of the year was the privacy injunction in PJS v NGN. Our case comment on the original injunction attracted a record number of visitors. Continue reading
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