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Hacked Off: The Daily Mail- PCC Code Breacher Of The Year
When the publishers of the Daily Mail saw a chart showing that theirs was by far the most complained-about paper in 2013, they took exception. The chart, they said, gave a “wildly inaccurate” picture...
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PCC Code breaches for January 2014 – and the winner is….
With no fanfare, no news release and no accompanying narrative, in the last couple of days the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) has discreetly uploaded the Monthly Complaint Summary for January 2014...
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Inaccurate, untested and uncorrected: another weak and inadequate PCC...
The Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”) rarely makes adjudications on complaints. Only seven have been published in 2014. Bearing in mind the fact that the PCC staff and procedures seem likely to be...
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Media Standards Trust Response to PCC Defence of IPSO
The Media Standards Trust has submitted a response [pdf] to the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee to the defence by the Press Complaints Commission (“the PCC”) of the “Independent Press...
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In its dying months, the PCC continues to massage the figures – Tom Rowland
Last year the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) received 12,763 complaints, yet its published Monthly Complaint Summaries only record 5,940 cases dealt with – or about 46 per cent of the total. So how...
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The ‘Regulatory Funding Company’ – further proof that the big press companies...
The people behind IPSO, the big newspaper companies’ PCC retread, have announced the initial membership of a body called the Regulatory Finance Company (RFC), the Guardian has reported. This is further...
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David Cameron, the Mail Online and recycled poison – Tom Rowland
In the dying days of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) the Prime Minister has found himself on the receiving end of a successful complaint over his public spat with senior clerics about the...
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The PCC is still failing to hold newspapers accountable: the case of Dr Kate...
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...
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IPSO: It’s déjà vu all over again – Mike Jempson
Give newspapers more time to put their houses in order.’ Sounds familiar? That was the plea of Labour’s Lord MacGregor, the then Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, in January 1992. He was...
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Robin Williams’ coverage shows editors won’t listen and won’t learn – Brian...
The coverage of Robin Williams’s death in some national newspapers shows not only that editors treat the PCC Code of Practice with contempt – there is nothing new about that – but also that they seem...
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Sleepy IPSO, Zombie PCC and the Neglected Public – Michelle Gribbon
On 8 September 2014, the discredited Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”) finally closed its doors and its successor – IPSO – was launched. The supposedly “new” regulator is based in the same office,...
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Sun Four Trial: Rebekah Brooks’ promises to PCC over Sun’s cash payments...
Reforms to the Sun’s system of cash payments pledged to the Press Complaints Commission by Rebekah Brooks “were never implemented,” the deputy editor of the newspaper has said. Geoffrey Webster, who is...
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IPSO: The Inconvenient Truth, Part Three – Jonathan Coad
In the final two parts of this post I examine why the efficacy of press regulation matters and how much. The short answer as to “why” is that we rely on the media to be our eyes and ears on what is...
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IPSO set up to fail even more dismally than its predecessor – Jonathan Coad
The PCC was belatedly consigned to the dustbin of history when it was finally so obvious that it was a failed regulator (as was always its purpose) that even the press finally had to admit it. From...
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Leveson Costs Incentives, Cries of Foul from the Dirtiest Players on the...
Howls of outrage from the press led by Lord Black have apparently persuaded the government to withdraw its statutory stick in the form the Crime and Courts Act 2013 which was passed by our elected...
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More spin from IPSO, Part 1 – Jonathan Coad
Sir Alan Moses has been propagandising again about the merits of IPSO, and in particular its alleged superiority over its predecessor, the Press Complaints Commission (“PCC”). He told the Guardian that...
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More spin from IPSO, Part 2 – Jonathan Coad
The irrefutable evidence that IPSO is and was always intended to be the same kind of sham regulators as its three un-illustrious predecessors emerges clearly from how it administers its primary remedy....
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History repeated as IPSO morphs into the PCC – Steven Barnett
Anyone reading last week’s newspaper editorials in newspapers such as the Mail or the Telegraph will know that our press is anxious. This week, the independent Press Recognition Panel – established by...
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IPSO: It’s déjà vu all over again – Mike Jempson
Give newspapers more time to put their houses in order.’ Sounds familiar? That was the plea of Labour’s Lord MacGregor, the then Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, in January 1992. He was...
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Robin Williams’ coverage shows editors won’t listen and won’t learn – Brian...
The coverage of Robin Williams’s death in some national newspapers shows not only that editors treat the PCC Code of Practice with contempt – there is nothing new about that – but also that they seem...
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