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The Leveson Inquiry: The danger of power
With power comes responsibility, warns Martin Moore of the Hacked Off campaign There is no shortage of quotes or aphorisms about the corrupting nature of too much power. From Thomas Bailey’s warning...
View ArticleBlog regulation: not waving, but drowning
The Department of Culture Media and Sport this week held a “mini-consultation” with the aim of soothing fears that bloggers may find themselves caught in the net of the proposed post-Leveson press...
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The newspapers’ royal regulation gambit
Yesterday’s announcement by several newspaper groups that they had launched their own royal charter for press regulation was met with anger by Hacked Off campaigners and, to be frank, confusion by the...
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Lord Lester slams Leveson royal charter
Lord Lester of Herne Hill – (picture: English PEN/Fickr) Lord Lester of Herne Hill, one of the UK’s most celebrated human rights lawyers, has slammed the government’s proposed Royal Charter on press...
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IPSO proposal an opportunity to break Leveson deadlock
The industry’s proposal for a new press regulator is not perfect. But it’s a starting point for proper discussion on the future of Britain’s free press, says Padraig Reidy This week sees two...
View ArticlePAST EVENT: Index on Censorship at the Liberal Democrat conference
The Hacked Off campaign, in association with the Liberal Democrats’ Social Liberal Forum, and with the support of Index on Censorship and English PEN, will be holding a fringe meeting with Hugh Grant...
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World Association of Newspapers urges Queen Elizabeth to reject politicians’...
This is a crosspost from WAN/IFRA COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION MEDIA TRUST, London, UK FIPP – THE WORLDWIDE MAGAZINE MEDIA ASSOCIATION, London, UK INTER AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION, Miami, USA...
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On Leveson, language and topsy-turviness
Martin Moore of the Media Standards Trust has written a long article for the New Statesman on the “topsy-turvy” world of the debate on press regulation and restrictions. Moore undoubtedly makes some...
View ArticleLeveson: What's on the line?
Lord Justice Leveson has been dealt a bad hand. On Thursday he’ll fulfil his task of recommending a new regulatory system for the British press — that vague bunch whose boundaries and levels of entry...
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Jodie Ginsberg: “We need a free, vibrant, independent and troublesome media”...
Index on Censorship CEO Jodie Ginsberg debated Evan Harris on Sky News on 9 May ahead of the UK’s House of Commons vote on amendments to the Data Protection Bill that would reintroduce into law...
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