Category Archives: Press intrusion

MailOnline and children, again

January 14, 2012 – 12:51 pm

Tweet This week saw Daily Mail picture editor Paul Silva face the Leveson inquiry. During the questioning he was asked about the privacy of children, here is a summary from the free speech blog: Silva agreed with a celebrity asking for privacy for their children, and that he “would go along with whatever they ask”. [...]

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Children of famous parents and their right to privacy

January 2, 2012 – 10:19 pm

Tweet Another thing I would like to see from the Leveson Inquiry is the conclusion that plastering the faces of young children across newspapers and their websites simply because they have been born to famous parents is utterly unacceptable. The PCC code of practice does mention Children and states: Editors must not use the fame, [...]

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Richard Peppiatt’s speech to the Leveson inquiry

October 8, 2011 – 10:46 am

Tweet Your must read article of the day, largely because it is someone from inside the newspaper industry confirming my own arguments about how media narratives are constructed and adhered to by all of the journalists working for a particular newspaper: In approximately 900 newspaper bylines I can probably count on fingers and toes the [...]

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Rebecca Leighton innocent, who will the press smear next?

September 3, 2011 – 9:54 am

Tweet Recently 8 newspapers agreed to apologise to Chris Jefferies and pay him damages for libel after they destroyed his reputation because he happened – unluckily – to be the landlord of murder victim Joanna Yeates. After having his character completely destroyed on the front page the newspapers only deemed an apology worthy of page [...]

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Brief thoughts on today’s hearing

July 19, 2011 – 9:47 pm

Tweet Just a couple of brief thoughts on today’s U.K. Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee hearing. Firstly, in many ways it was exactly what was expected: politicians demonstrating that they are not often elected on merit or ability; those summoned pleading almost universal amnesia or simply skirting around answering questions with a stream of [...]

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