Up to date examples: the PCC

The last week has brought the PCC sharply into the media focus once again. It is essential that you have up to date examples to use in the exam.

Jan Muir
Read the article below, it was written by Jan Muir and published in The Daily Mail last week.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1220756/A-strange-lonely-troubling-death--.html
It has received over a thousand complaints to the PCC, mostly via email, twitter and other online means.

• Read the article and decide what people could be complaining about.
• What wider social issues does this case bring up?

Trafigura

The Guardian has been locked in a five week court wrangle with Trafigura (oil traders) over their right to report on the Minton report.

Read the following stories:

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=44484&c=1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/organgrinder/audio/2009/oct/16/media-talk-podcast-trafigura-press-freedom

• What wider social issues does this case bring up?

Starsuckers vs. The Tabloids

Last week a story broke about how much certain tabloids were willing to pay for "private" information. Read the article below.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/15/starsuckers-celebrity-cosmetic-surgery-hoax

• What wider social issues does this case bring up?

Case Studies

Below is a list of possible case studies for this unit. You will need to find more, and understand how they link to regulation of the press.

The Mail vs. Lord Browne (BP)

The Daily Star re. Titus Bramble and Carlton Cole

Anna Ford, suncream, the PCC and the court case

The London Evening Standard, Prince of Edinburgh and Prostrate Cancer

The Sun, Wayne Rooney, libel, violence

Sunday World, Philip Johnston, libel

Daily Mail, Kate Winslet, libel

The Daily Mirror, Ruth Kelly, son's education

The Daily Telegraph, George Galloway, Saddam Hussain

An interesting article, to help gather points of view, can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/bbc_parliament/4277965.stm

Update

http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfMjVkODlkNGZjdg&hl=en

Powerpoints for revision

Below you will find links to some of the powerpoints we have used when covering the British Press. Please use them, and your own notes, for revision.


Freedom, Regulation and Control in the British Press, an introduction
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfNWNzNDdqeDRm&hl=en

An Introduction to News Values
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfMTVnNHE3MmpkOA&hl=en

Statutory Regualtions and the British Press
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfMThmYnBrcHFmcQ&hl=en

Defamation, Privacy and Freedom of Speech
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfMjBjcjloNmpocA&hl=en

The Economics of the Press and the notion of "free press"
http://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ASNHmU2kVu3zZGc0bnBkZ2tfMjVkODlkNGZjdg&hl=en