Tuesday, 27 March 2018
Newspapers Not Regulated By IPSO
During tenure of the PCC, the Richard Desmond-owned tabloid papers The Daily Express (mid-market) and The Daily Star (red-top) were withdrawn from their aforementioned owner as there
Despite claiming to be an improvement on the PCC, IPSO is still not backed by statute. due to it being institutional self-regulation, so none of the newspapers had to join. So unlike The Express and The Star that backed out later, three papers immediately refused to join:
What would happen if all the papers decided to leave?
Each of the newspapers has set up their own editorial code.
THE GUARDIAN
It's own editorial code:
COMPLAINTS
The Guardian apparently tops lists of complaints made about unregulated newspapers,
(Press Gazette)
Case involving cartoon on SNP, complains of racism. (the strip, labelled as an opinion piece)
Guardian columnist Chris Bell writing a response.
Big controversy about Julie Burchill (Guardian article)
THE INDEPENDENT
They call it "Code of Conduct".
12 complaints received about report of Syrian boy refugee (Press Gazette report)
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Has it's own Editorial Code:
Directly under this there is a list of complaints, only one (the most recent) was declared as a breach and one was partially upheld, 1 and a half out of 17 in three years, can one call that realistically effective regulation?
More info:
Despite claiming to be an improvement on the PCC, IPSO is still not backed by statute. due to it being institutional self-regulation, so none of the newspapers had to join. So unlike The Express and The Star that backed out later, three papers immediately refused to join:
- The Guardian
- The Indepedent
- The Financial Times
What would happen if all the papers decided to leave?
Each of the newspapers has set up their own editorial code.
THE GUARDIAN
It's own editorial code:
COMPLAINTS
The Guardian apparently tops lists of complaints made about unregulated newspapers,
(Press Gazette)
Case involving cartoon on SNP, complains of racism. (the strip, labelled as an opinion piece)
Guardian columnist Chris Bell writing a response.
Big controversy about Julie Burchill (Guardian article)
THE INDEPENDENT
They call it "Code of Conduct".
12 complaints received about report of Syrian boy refugee (Press Gazette report)
THE FINANCIAL TIMES
Has it's own Editorial Code:
Directly under this there is a list of complaints, only one (the most recent) was declared as a breach and one was partially upheld, 1 and a half out of 17 in three years, can one call that realistically effective regulation?
15 February 2018, Paul Tierno. Breach, Article 7(2)
22 January 2018, Peter Cheung. No breach, Clause 1.1.
7 December 2017, Ellie Bennett. No breach, Clause 1.1 or 1.2.
31 October 2017, Alex Wessendorff. No breach, Clause 1.1 or 1.2.
8 August 2017, Shaun Whatling. No breach, Clause 1.2.
16 June 2017, Dr Colin Leci. No breach, Clause 1.
6 August 2016, Anthony Kay. No breach, Clause 12.1.
24 May 2016, Paul Stanley. No breach.
14 April 2016, Jordan Jay. No breach.
14 April 2016, Owen Angel and Paul Lamm. No breach.
6 January 2016, Dr Colin L. Leci. No breach.
29 June 2015, Robert Bartlett. No breach.
29 May 2015, Jonathan Portes. Complaint partially upheld under Clause 1.2.
18 June 2015, Dr Bia Labate. No breach of articles 1(2) and 1(4). Article in question here.29 March 2015, Matt Berkley. No breach, Clause 1 or 1.2.
1 March 2015, PA. No breach of Clause 3.
25 February, Andrew Anderson. No breach, Clause 1.
More info:
Monday, 26 March 2018
BBFC + MPAA Ratings
From the BBFC website:
U
...
Themes
...
PG
...
12
...
The Motion Picture Association of America, from the MPAA website:
...
U
...
Themes
...
PG
...
12
...
The Motion Picture Association of America, from the MPAA website:
...
Chomsky's Propaganda Model
CONCENTRATION OF OWNERSHIP:
Less diversity, profit is in their interest.
A writer for The Telegraph, whose critical articles of HSBC were spiked, not published by the newspaper, he resigned.
A writer for The Telegraph, whose critical articles of HSBC were spiked, not published by the newspaper, he resigned.
ADVERTISING MONEY:
Advertisers are paying for audiences, not just selling a product
Who do you quote?
You need
If you annoy those privileged sources
You look at who's not being quoted.
Left-wing bias because of trade unions and workers being quoted
FLAK:
When you strive away from the consensus, away from the narrative.
THE COMMON ENEMY:
Scapegoat
Anti-Left Wing
Hostile towards immigrants.
THE COMMON ENEMY:
Scapegoat
Anti-Left Wing
Hostile towards immigrants.
IPSO rulings
PRINCE HARRY
Mail Online, the website of The Daily Mail, a mid-market newspaper, published photos of Prince Harry while on holiday in Jamaica.
Mail Online, the website of The Daily Mail, a mid-market newspaper, published photos of Prince Harry while on holiday in Jamaica.
Prince Harry's complaint appealed that Mail Online breached Clause 1 (Accuracy) and Clause 2 (Privacy).
IPSO ruled that this was a breach of privacy and was not in the public interest.,
Reasons given:
- The prince was not carrying out official duties as a member of the Royal Family
- the photographer was in close proximity (700-800 yards) of the prince without him knowing about it
Friday, 23 March 2018
TIMELINE
PRESS:
1843: Libel Act
1947: 1st Royal Commission On The Press (RCP)
1949: 1 RCP report
1949-52: Press Refuse
1952: General Council of the Press, after cross-parliament political pressure of statutory regulation.
1961: 2nd RCP launched
1962: 2nd RCP report
1963: GCP replaced by Press Council.
1977: You have a coalition government. but with a very small minority. Very weak Labour government. 1977 report, no new press regulator, because of fear of the press.
This government had a chance to do something because of an election coming up, because they would lose because of overwhelming negative press coverage.
If they had followed the recommendations of 3.RCP, statutory regulation would have followed.
1979: Conservatives win under Margaret Thatcher.
1980s: Right-wing era
1983: Thatcher elected for second term
1987: Thatcher elected for third term
1995: Tony Blair has meeting with Rupert Murdoch in Australia
1997: Labour is back in power after 18 years, now rebranded, shift to the right. Press secretary Alastair Campbell
2011: Phone Hacking Scandal
2015: Conservative Majority still under David Cameron, Lib Dems out and massive drop of seats from nearly 60 to nine.
2017: General Election
2018: Leveson2 dropped
FILM:
1909: Cinematograph Act
1912: Daily Mail article, BBFC formed. as British Board of Film Censors
Introduction of two advisory certificates:
1923: Irish Film Classification Office created after Irish independence in 1922
1932: Third certificate, Horror (H certificate)
1937: Cinematograph Films Animals Act
1950: First compulsory certificate, X, replacing H certificate
1963: A Certificate split into two
1972: The Last House On The Left banned
1979: Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship report
1982: System overhauled, only U certificate remaining; PG, 15, 18 + R18 introduced
1984: Video Recordings Act 1984 passed by Parliament.
1985: New U certificate "Universal Children" introduced allowing children to watch material on their own
1989: 12 certificate introduced just for cinemas
1994: 12 certificate introduced for videos
1999: James Ferman retires
2001 - 2002: PG-12 test in Norwich
2002: 12 cinema certificate modified and turned into 12A
2009: Uc retired and replaced by BBFCinsight
2010: ConDem Coalition, Video Recordings Act 2010
2014: Pilot programme to test BBFC ratings for UK-produced major label music videos (convergence between film and music video)
2015: Age ratings enforced for UK produced major label music videos
1949: 1 RCP report
1949-52: Press Refuse
1952: General Council of the Press, after cross-parliament political pressure of statutory regulation.
1961: 2nd RCP launched
1962: 2nd RCP report
1963: GCP replaced by Press Council.
1977: You have a coalition government. but with a very small minority. Very weak Labour government. 1977 report, no new press regulator, because of fear of the press.
This government had a chance to do something because of an election coming up, because they would lose because of overwhelming negative press coverage.
If they had followed the recommendations of 3.RCP, statutory regulation would have followed.
1979: Conservatives win under Margaret Thatcher.
1980s: Right-wing era
1983: Thatcher elected for second term
1987: Thatcher elected for third term
1995: Tony Blair has meeting with Rupert Murdoch in Australia
1997: Labour is back in power after 18 years, now rebranded, shift to the right. Press secretary Alastair Campbell
2011: Phone Hacking Scandal
2015: Conservative Majority still under David Cameron, Lib Dems out and massive drop of seats from nearly 60 to nine.
2017: General Election
2018: Leveson2 dropped
FILM:
1909: Cinematograph Act
1912: Daily Mail article, BBFC formed. as British Board of Film Censors
Introduction of two advisory certificates:
1932: Third certificate, Horror (H certificate)
1937: Cinematograph Films Animals Act
1950: First compulsory certificate, X, replacing H certificate
1963: A Certificate split into two
1972: The Last House On The Left banned
1979: Committee on Obscenity and Film Censorship report
1982: System overhauled, only U certificate remaining; PG, 15, 18 + R18 introduced
1984: Video Recordings Act 1984 passed by Parliament.
1985: New U certificate "Universal Children" introduced allowing children to watch material on their own
1989: 12 certificate introduced just for cinemas
1994: 12 certificate introduced for videos
1999: James Ferman retires
2001 - 2002: PG-12 test in Norwich
2002: 12 cinema certificate modified and turned into 12A
2009: Uc retired and replaced by BBFCinsight
2010: ConDem Coalition, Video Recordings Act 2010
2014: Pilot programme to test BBFC ratings for UK-produced major label music videos (convergence between film and music video)
2015: Age ratings enforced for UK produced major label music videos
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