Press Regulations
We need rules to protect our freedoms. Too much or too little regulation and there is so meaningful freedom.
Too much regulation means that the press has no freedom and have little on what they can publish. There is no creative license and they can control what they want us to think.
Too little regulation is dangerous because there is so much freedom which promotes them to put out fake stories which can potentially damage peoples lives.
The Leveson inquiry
This was set up to investigate the practices and ethics of the press. Leveson recommended that there should be a state-backed regulator to hold the press to account. Key points include;
Too much regulation means that the press has no freedom and have little on what they can publish. There is no creative license and they can control what they want us to think.
Too little regulation is dangerous because there is so much freedom which promotes them to put out fake stories which can potentially damage peoples lives.
The Leveson inquiry
This was set up to investigate the practices and ethics of the press. Leveson recommended that there should be a state-backed regulator to hold the press to account. Key points include;
- independent of serving editors, government and business.
- new self-regulation body recommended.
- no widespread corruption of police by the press found
- politicians and press have been too close.
- press behaviour at times has been "outragous"
Regulation:
- An independent regulatory body for the press should be established. It should take a high role in promoting high standards.
- The new body should be backed by legislation
- A legal duty on the government
- The body should be independent of current journalists.
- Newspapers that refuse should be regulated by media watchdog Ofcom.
- encourage the press to be as transparent as possible.
- whistleblowing hotline.
Law of the jungle;
- The press barons can easily kill off competition
- newspapers could print damaging lies about people which could destroy their lives and businesses
- newspapers could intrude into peoples lives- stalking
- newspapers could print private and personal information about individuals.
- They could lie, exaggerate, fail to fact check at will
- could print information leading to court cases
- could print stories which incite hatred
- Inappropriate content
*what they still do today
-In summer 2018, 8 people are charged with phone hacking, 7 from press and 1 from the government.
-Milly Dowler case- the news of the world had lots of freedom that they deleted key information that she was alive on her phone- shows that having too much freedom is dangerous and causes news brands to get banned. They had to pay so much compensation to lots of people because of phone hacking- seen as untrustworthy.
IPSO( Independent press standards organisation)
- funded by the daily newspapers it represents
- Included the telegraph, times, metro, sun, daily mail but the Guardian opted out.
- Says impress is state-sponsored funded almost entirely by Max Mosley- admitted to holding biases against newspapers/journalists
- Said impress will never be a UK news regulator.
Impress( independent monitor for the press)
- independent news regulator for the UK
- completely compliant with terms of Leveson inquiry.
- they provide the public with reassurance- true stories that represent their interests
- in 2008, Max Mosley successfully sued the News of the world for £60,000 in after the Sunday tabloid that falsely accused him of taking part in a "sick Nazi orgy"
- Mosley, 68, is the son of 1930's British fascist leader Sir Oswald Mosley, sued the Sunday tabloid paper for grossly invading his privacy after it printed pictures and published videos of him indulging in a 5-hour sadomasochistic sex session with prostitutes in a Chelsea apartment.
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