Tag Archives: PCC

‘obtained from a news agency in good faith’

September 20, 2011 – 8:29 pm

Tweet 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 inaccurate. The complainant was among the first people at the scene and, contrary to what had been reported, there was no indication that the rider’s injuries [...]

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Crime and _________?

July 15, 2011 – 2:16 pm

Tweet 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 deliberately lying. Very often this means that the only way a member of the public can feel like [...]

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Is the Press Complaints Commission corrupt as well as useless?

July 12, 2011 – 8:25 pm

Tweet 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 that: Members of the public will still come to us for help, and our staff will offer it to them. Intrusions will be prevented and [...]

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How modern editors define ‘in the public interest’

April 10, 2011 – 10:54 am

Tweet 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 and family life, home, health and correspondence, including digital communications. ii) Editors will be expected to justify intrusions into any [...]

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Latest PCC resolutions and adjudications

March 25, 2011 – 11:44 am

Tweet 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 [...]

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