Category Archives: PCC

David Cameron admits he was badly wrong about the PCC

July 8, 2011 – 3:03 pm

Im May this year David Cameron – appearing on Radio 4′s Today Programme – defended the concept of press self-regulation and in particular he made sure he directed some praise towards the PCC. He said: “I sense that there’s still more to be done to recognise that actually the Press Complaints Commission has come on [...]

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Waking-up to the real state of our tabloid press

July 5, 2011 – 10:57 pm

It is a huge story. The allegations that the News of the World hacked into Milly Dowler’s phone and not only listened to the messages but also deleted some of them to free-up space for new messages which, according to the Guardian, led to: friends and relatives of Milly concluded wrongly that she might still [...]

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Twitter outrage guidelines

July 2, 2011 – 11:09 am

Yesterday the Mail website decided to run a story that even by its own very low standards was a shockingly insensitive and crude political attack. The Daily Mail is not afraid to use any excuse to attack public sector strikes and yesterday decided that the awful accidental death of a 13-year-old girl was the perfect [...]

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Latest PCC resolutions and adjudications

March 25, 2011 – 11:44 am

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 repeatedly made clear to the newspaper that he did not wish to comment on a story about his son’: The complainant’s son was a [...]

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Journalists and the Code

July 12, 2010 – 9:44 pm

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 is often written into their contracts of employment. Thanks to a reader getting in touch I stand [...]

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