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The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) has got into a tangle of its own making over the “unacceptable” conduct of one of its smallest members and now finds itself confronted with perhaps the most fateful decision of its nine-year existence. Continue reading
Our news media desperately need reform. Wherever you look there are deep and damaging problems. For example: Continue reading
Right now, the spectacle of the entire UK mainstream media going mad over the BBC presenter story, as they did for five whole days, looks about as squalid and as monstrous as it could possibly be. Continue reading
IPSO, the sham ‘self-regulator’ operated by the big press companies, has finally – after six-and-a-half months – made a ruling on Jeremy Clarkson’s article in the Sun attacking Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, which prompted an unprecedented 25,100 complaints. Continue reading
The Independent Press Standards Organisation, or IPSO, the so-called ‘press self-regulator’ operated by the big UK newspaper companies for their own benefit, is suffering a double crisis. Continue reading
The Judge hearing the bid by the Sun newspaper to block phone hacking claims brought by Prince Harry and Hugh Grant has ordered a a further, shorter hearing in July, after which he will give his decision. Continue reading
The four day High Court hearing about the phone hacking and privacy intrusion claims against the Daily Mail group by Prince Harry and others ended yesterday in the world of the hypothetical and even the surreal. Continue reading
On the third day of the High Court hearing in relation to claims that the Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday illegally breached the privacy of Sir Elton John, Prince Harry, Baroness Lawrence and four others, the newspapers argued that the cases came too late. Continue reading
Day two of the High Court hearing in the Daily Mail intrusion and phone hacking case brought the newspaper’s approach into clearer relief. Continue reading
Britain is in a terrible and worsening mess, and it can never really change for the better – that is to say that no politician or party, no matter how well intentioned, will be able to set it firmly on the path to recovery – without media reform. Continue reading
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