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Readings

Below are listed some relevant reading and interesting articles on the subject of this campaign. We will continue to add to this list of links and information as the camapign develops. Please send us any links to anything that you think we should have in this section by clicking HERE.

Painful lessons (but 60,000 smackers won't even make NoW wince)

25 July 2008 - In his ruling against the News of the World in the privacy case brought by Max Mosley, President of Federation Internationale de l'Automobile, the governing body of Formula One, Mr Justice Eady has done the public some unexpected favours.

Most people can live without revelations about sordid sex-dens - which is no doubt why most people don't buy the NoW ? so the judge's ruling that pictures of sexual acts conducted between consenting adults should, for the most part, remain private is to be welcomed.

"The law is concerned to prevent the violation of a citizen's dignity and self-esteem," he said, adding that "the nature and scale of the distress caused is in large measure due to the clandestine filming and the pictures acquired as a result"

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Cheap at the price

18 July 2008 - What could be more damaging than to be accused of paedophilia, child abduction and lying? To have those untrue allegations bruited about to some 50 million people with no chance of repudiation, perhaps.

During the media scramble for stories (for 'stories' read 'sales') about the disappearance of Madeleine McCann in Portugal last year, eleven British newspapers - the Daily Mail, Evening Standard and Metro; the Daily and Sunday Express and Daily Star; the Sun and News of the World and the Daily and Sunday Mirror ' published over 100 stories based around these charges. Now those falsely accused - Robert Murat, Sergey Malinka, and Michaela Walczuch - are to share some £800,000 in damages. They deserve far more.

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Time for a Culture Change

'MediaWise Director Mike Jempson offers some practical suggestions about how the press complaints system might be improved. After ten years advising complainants against newspapers, MediaWise has developed very clear ideas about how the press complaints system can be improved.

There are an estimated 1,297 newspapers, 1,245 magazines, 617 radio stations and 350 television channels on offer to the British public and only a handful of companies that own them. Cross-media ownership gives these firms immense power over what we read, see and hear.'

Often operating across the world, they have an extraordinary influence over public discourse and culture, and are accountable only to those with a vested interest in their commercial success. Since few members of the public have any idea who these people are, or the extent to which their financial interests touch upon other aspects of our lives, we have little idea whether editorial content might be driven by considerations inimical to the public interest.

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Right of Reply and Press Standards Bill

A Bill to give persons a right of reply to correct factual inaccuracies in the press that are damaging to them; to establish and confer functions upon the Press Standards Board and the Press Standards Adjudicator; to create an offence in connection with non-compliance with an enforcement notice served by the Press Standards Board; and for connected purposes.

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NEWSPAPER AND MAGAZINE PUBLISHING IN THE U.K.

Editors’ Code of Practice

This is the newspaper and periodical industry’s Code of Practice. It is framed and revised by the Editors’ Code Committee made up of “independent” (ugh…hum) editors of national, regional and local newspapers and magazines. (Quite what INDEPENDENT means in relation to the Editors on this committee is beyond me but anyway).

This is what is expected of our newspapers. This is the code of ethics which newspapers are expected to abide by and it is the job of the Press Complaints commission to make sure that they do.

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Why press regulation needs to be reformed: Peter Bradley MP Private members Bill

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2005/feb/22/pressandpublishing1

Interview with Meyer PCC main man

http://www.davidrowan.com/2005/07/interview-sir-christopher-meyer pcc.html

MPís plea over press deceptions

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4298975.stm

Mpís right of reply launched unlikey to become law because of a lack of parliamentary time

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4287255.stm

The Goodman affair mobile phone hacking

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/4287255.stm

Editor of News of the World joins the Tory party as head of communication