A group made up mainly of newspaper editors has released a revised version of the press industry standards code which it instructs IPSO to administer and to “take active steps to ensure that publications” adhere to. Continue reading
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Tag: Editors’ Code
If you ever doubt that the people who run our corporate national press view the British public with contempt, take a look at Clause 1(iii) of their professional code of practice. Continue reading
Dr Kate Stone, a Cambridge academic, spoke on Channel 4 News on Saturday about how she had succeeded in getting no fewer than 6 national newspapers to correct a story, and that this was via a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Continue reading
You might think that any institution dedicated to upholding an industry’s code of practice would want to be clear how many times that code was broken and which companies were the most frequent offenders. Not the Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”). Continue reading
The British press is very good at telling others how to organise their affairs. It is not so good at putting its own house in order. Our newspapers have a long and consistent record of evasion and inaction when it comes to dealing with its own deficiencies. One interesting, and neglected example concerns the “Editors’ Code”. This is the code of standards which the discredited Press Complaints Commission claims to enforce. Continue reading
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