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
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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
Many thousands of people have complained to the so-called press regulator IPSO about Jeremy Clarkson’s revolting incitement to violent misogyny in the Sun newspaper. I can tell you now: IPSO will do nothing that might make the slightest difference. Continue reading
Rarely mentioned in the news media since it began, Boris Johnson’s Government has been quietly paying a special Coronavirus subsidy to the big newspaper groups for nearly two years. Details are scarce, but the bulk of this taxpayers’ money appears to have gone to organisations that (a) were wealthy enough to survive the crisis without special help and (b) generally support the Government through their partisan journalism. Continue reading
We all see the favours the corporate newspapers do for the Conservatives because they are written in large type every day – distractions, distortions, plain lies and cynical omissions. While pumping out propaganda in print and online, they can be seen to be routinely shielding chosen ministers from criticism. Continue reading
The headline at the top of the front page of the London Times read: ‘Teachers Told to Avoid the ‘Biased’ Views of BLM and Stonewall’. And the report beneath began with the sentence: “Teachers must avoid using material from campaigning organisations such as Black Lives Matter (BLM) and Stonewall that may have ‘partisan political views’, Government guidance on impartiality states.” Continue reading
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