Labelled “EXCLUSIVE: BOMBSHELL CLAIM OVER EUROPE VOTE” the Sun in letters more than 6cm high exclaims: “QUEEN BACKS BREXIT”. This startling revelation is then followed by the Sun sub-heading “EU going in wrong direction, she says”. The Sun is however guilty of a grotesque deception not only of its own readers but of millions who have not bought the paper or visited its website. Read the rest of this entry »
‘The Sun’ Misleads the Nation on Its Front Page About the Queen’s Views on the EU Referendum – Jonathan Coad
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Tags: Corrections, Huffington Post, IPSO, Jonathan Coad, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media Regulation
How the fearmongering “Sun” distorts its polls – Steven Barnett
24 11 2015
Yesterday’s front page headline in the Sun covers almost the entire page. Accompanied by a chilling photo of a knife-wielding “Jihadi John” in black balaclava, it proclaims “1 IN 5 BRIT MUSLIMS’ SYMPATHY FOR JIHADIS”. It is a lie. Even worse, it is a shameful distortion of its own polling data, consciously designed to fuel terror and distrust of Muslims. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Huffington Post, Steven Barnett, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media
Life and Death in the Sun Newsroom – Martin Hickman
29 10 2015
Fleet Street is a closed world. National newspapers shape debate, make or break careers and alter the course of corporations and governments, but their newsrooms remain barred to outsiders. The news is public; how it is made is private. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Martin Hickman, openDemocracyUK, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media
“Their Royal Heilnesses”: the Sun, the Royal Family, Public Interest and Freedom of Information
20 07 2015
On 18 July 2015, the Sun ran a front page “exclusive” showing a picture of the Queen (aged about 7 or 8) and the Queen Mother doing Nazi Salutes. In the background can be seen the then Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII. The pictures were extracted from a short piece of film – apparently taken in 1933 or 1934 by the future George VI – from the royal family’s archives. The footage was also made available by the Sun. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Public Interest, Royal Family, Sun, Transparency
Categories : Freedom of Information, Privacy
News: Operation Elveden, Sun journalist Anthony France convicted of aiding and abetting misconduct in public office [Updated]
23 05 2015
Sun crime reporter, Anthony France, has been convicted of aiding and abetting misconduct in a public office. Mr France had paid PC Timothy Edwards a total of £22,000 for 42 stories over a period of 3 years. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Anthony France, Misconduct in Public Office, Operation Elveden, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Legal
Journalists and the courts: where the Sun and its friends are wrong – Brian Cathcart
20 04 2015
Amid the sustained press attacks on Operation Elveden and on the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in relation to the prosecution of journalists on charges arising out of payments to public officials, it is worth remembering four basic points. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: CPS, Operation Elveden, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Legal
Operation Elveden, the CPS and the serious abuse of public trust – James Doleman
4 04 2015
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decision not to seek a re-trial in the case of a former News of the World journalist, whose conviction was quashed by the Court of Appeal comes as no surprise. The reporter concerned, who cannot be named for legal reasons, had already served the relevant part of their sentence, home detention. So any further trial would seem to be rather pointless. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: James Doleman, Misconduct in Public Office, Operation Elveden, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Legal
Paying the price, the cost of dealing with the Sun – James Doleman
25 03 2015
The not guilty verdicts at the recent trial of four Sun journalists on charges relating to payments to public officials has led to the Metropolitan Police’s “Operation Elveden” being branded a failure by The Sun and other tabloid newspapers. Demands to “stop the witch-hunt” and in one case a comparison between the Crown Prosecution Service and Hitler have graced our red-top press. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: James Doleman, Sun, Sun Four Trial
Categories : Journalism, Legal
Beyond Parody, Mackenzie and Murdoch cast themselves as consumer champions – Brian Cathcart
16 01 2015
Kelvin MacKenzie and Rupert Murdoch have taken an initiative that is beyond parody: they have set up a consumer complaint website whose aim, according to the former Sun editor, is ‘to force companies and politicians to do the right thing’. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Brian Cathcart, Kelvin Mackenzie, Rupert Murdoch, Sun
Categories : Leveson Inquiry, Media Regulation
Reflections on Verdicts in the Trials of Sun Reporters – James Doleman
31 12 2014If you only read Britain’s best-selling tabloid newspaper you would think that the last 6 months of Sun journalists appearing in the criminal courts have led to a total vindication for the paper and for its version of journalistic ethics. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: James Doleman, Sun
Categories : Journalism, Media, Phone Hacking
