Comments on: The toothless PCC strikes again

By: Debate around the web « The press, the media and regulation policy

Debate around the web « The press, the media and regulation policy — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:55:02 +0000

[...] SepticIsle reports on the PCC’s investigation of the Alfie Patten story: “Is the PCC a regulator or is it not? A regulator with any teeth would have demanded that the newspapers themselves reveal what was promised, and just how, if the reports of the Sun setting up a trust fund for the child are accurate, it was intending to deliver the payment.” [...]

By: Cabalamat

Cabalamat — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 08:59:05 +0000

Rebekah Wade seems to have completely lost her moral compass

Assuming she ever had one to start with, which I strongly doubt.

By: Left Outside

Left Outside — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 15:11:06 +0000

It’s true the PCC is useless, as well as intrepid bloggers have pointed out the lies, fabrications and hate of many papers they do not nearly have the clout necessary to get the news out.

A tooled up PCC would begin to shake up the idea that just because something’s been printed that it must be true.

People assume you can’t get away with it, but you can. A decent press complaints commission would be able to demand full front page apologies and corrections when necessary, or impose fines for lies.

I don’t want to impose a “consensus” opinion everyone with a new PCC, that would ruin journalism and politics in general but people just presenting opinions as opinions not fact would be nice.