On Monday evening, the BBC’s Newsnight programme revealed that a sub-committee of the privy council had rejected the Royal Charter on press self-regulation put forward by the Press Standards Board of Finance (PressBof). By the following morning, rumours were rife that consideration of the Royal Charter on press self-regulation agreed by the three main political parties on March 18 would be delayed until October 30, immediately sparking fears that, in the interim, the newspapers would do their utmost to pressure the Tories into watering down the agreed Charter. Continue reading
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Newspaper bosses squeal in sham anguish, but they knew better than anyone that their petition for a Royal Charter was never likely to be more than a spoiling manoeuvre, and that in the end it would have to be binned.
On every level it was an inadequate document, so that if it had been a school exam paper, even the most sympathetic teacher would have had to fail it. Continue reading
In a statement to the House of Commons this afternoon the Secretary of State for Culture Media and Sport, Maria Miller said that the Committee of the Privy Council was “unable to recommend” that the Press proposal for a Royal Charter be granted. Continue reading
This is the week of the Privy Council and Press Charters. The Privy Council is due to meet on 9 October 2013 and it seems that the the PressBoF Royal Charter [doc] may be on the agenda. A Committee of the Privy Council has been considering this charter and may be formally reporting to the Privy Council. Continue reading
It is now ten months since Lord Justice Leveson made public the recommendations of his public inquiry into the press, and it is two years and three months since we learned that the News of the World hacked into the voicemails of a missing 13-year-old. By any measure, it is high time the politicians did something. Continue reading
Almost a year on from the publication of the Leveson Report and media regulation in the UK remains in a state of flux. Two charters are currently vying to establish a recognition body to keep tabs on a press regulator in the UK. But both could result in a stalemate. This blog considers the impact on the regulation of the press in Scotland and whether there are alternative options available. Continue reading
Editors, we hear, are filing one by one through the door of Downing Street, bending the Prime Minister’s ear about royal charters and press regulators. You must do something, they warn him, or there will be an impasse, a stalemate. They are wrong. There is no impasse; there is a process. Continue reading
A new opinion poll carried by YouGov [pdf] and commissioned by the Media Standards Trust shows that 50% of respondents favour the Cross-Party Royal Charter setting up a recognition panel while only 13% favour the PressBoF charter. A total of 69% of respondents favour tougher press regulation, with only 4% in favour of less tough regulation and 18% in favour of the current level. Continue reading
This morning’s FT Editorial (£) repeats a myth we hear all the time: that the cross-party royal charter was “assembled over pizza in the early hours of the morning”. A deal was thrown together – so the story goes – late at night in Ed Miliband’s office with Hacked Off in the room and the press totally excluded. Continue reading
For the fourth time since 2011 the owners of the big national press groups have published a new proposal for press self-regulation – and for the fourth time they have repeated what Lord Justice Leveson damningly called their ‘pattern of cosmetic reform’. Once again they talk the talk of ‘independent, effective self-regulation’, but the detail shows they still have no intention of walking that walk. Continue reading
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