The Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) – the so-called press regulator which in seven years has never investigated or fined even one of its members – appears to be paralysed in the face of a very obvious collapse of standards at the Jewish Chronicle. Continue reading
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The sham press ‘regulator’ IPSO has seen its weakness and cowardice embarrassingly exposed this month in the case of the serial misconduct of the Jewish Chronicle. Continue reading
After seven years, it is legitimate to wonder whether the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) will ever launch a formal investigation into journalism standards at one of its member publications. We may be about to find out. Continue reading
An important test of sincerity confronts the editors of the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Daily Mirror, Huffington Post and others in the news media who last week distanced themselves from claims by the Society of Editors – an industry body which describes itself as “protecting the freedom of the news media” – that the press is free of racism. Continue reading
If the Daily Mail and its press allies are in a froth of hysterical fury about Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, that may have something to do with the way she continues to humiliate the publishers of the Mail in court. Continue reading
“Why don’t you kill yourself?” “Better go into hiding”. “I’d pop her on a bonfire”. “We need to get rid of these people”. “Shut her up”. “People like this needs a proper slap – enough to clatter the teeth”. “Years ago she would have been burned at the stake”. “This needs to stop – and forcefully if necessary”. “Bring back hanging”. “How about a trip to the gulag?” “Looks J’ish to me”. “Noose”. Continue reading
The big British newspapers, and especially the papers of the Mail group, want control. They want to make people behave in ways of which they approve and they will stop at nothing to ensure they do. Continue reading
Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, will learn within weeks whether she will have a quick victory in her privacy and copyright case against the Mail on Sunday newspaper or whether it will go to full trial in London in the autumn. Continue reading
As it approaches an important round in its case against the Duchess of Sussex, the legal department of of Associated Newspapers, owner of the Daily Mail, has been going through a bumpy spell. Take a look. Continue reading
In six years, IPSO, the complaints body of the corporate press, has received approaching 20,000 complaints about articles that people considered discriminatory – and of those it has upheld only one. Editors have now reviewed this state of affairs and have concluded that it suits them fine. Continue reading
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