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Back to the Tabloid world of fear
Well I’m back after a few drunken days away in a tent. At no point during these few days was I made angry by the rubbish published by the Tabloid newspapers and somehow, life seemed all the better for...
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Journalists and the Code
In my last post I suggested – based on what I had read on the PCC website and in the various communications that they put out – that journalists should be punished more frequently because the PCC code...
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PCC responds to Mac swastika cartoon
You might remember the recent court case in which a gay couple won their discrimination case against the hotel owners who turned them away because they were gay. Daily Mail cartoonist ‘Mac’ covered the...
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Latest PCC resolutions and adjudications
The Press Complaints Commission upheld a complaint against the Scottish Daily Mail under clause 4 (Harassment) of the Editor’s Code of Practice. The newspaper persisted in ‘approaching a man who had...
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How modern editors define ‘in the public interest’
For those of you not familiar with the Press Complaints Commission’s Editors’ Code of Practice, here is what it says about privacy: *Privacy i) Everyone is entitled to respect for his or her private...
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Is the Press Complaints Commission corrupt as well as useless?
The Press Complaints Commission are absolutely certain that they are an effective regulator and recently released an incredibly rose-tinted statement about how their ‘important work’ will go on and...
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Crime and _________?
One of the things that has always struck me about the Press Complaints Commission is that it rarely seems able to punish newspapers even when they make serious errors – or worse they are caught out...
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‘obtained from a news agency in good faith’
From the Press Complaints Commission’s ‘resolved’ case list today: Jennifer Stevenson complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the newspaper’s coverage of a fatal horse riding accident was...
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Due prominence
The Leveson inquiry examining the culture, practices and ethics of the press concluded with a printed report on the 29th November 2012. It recommended that the press – having failed to effectively...
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