PCC in crisis as Rusbridger resigns
Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, has resigned from the Press Complaints Commission’s code committee days after the Guardian’s coverage of the News of the World phone-hacking affair was criticised by the regulator.
The PCC said it found no evidence that it was “materially misled” by the News of the World over the alleged hacking of celebrities’ mobile phones or that the practice was “ongoing”, prompting Rusbridger to respond by saying:
“If you have a self-regulation system that’s finding nothing out and has no teeth, and all the work is being done by external people, it’s dangerous for self-regulation. If you have a regulator behaving this uselessly, I suspect MPs will start saying this is not regulation,”
More – http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/nov/17/guardian-editor-resigns-pcc
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Latest Private Eye shows the error of the PCC’s ways, demonstrating how The NoW’s editor, Colin Myler, was at the very least “highly misleading” in his evidence to them. (“Tapping Resources”, p7, Eye no. 1249)
Not that anyone ever seems to notice, of course…
ho hum.
Can the Guardian editor (400k plus bonus) resigning constitute any kind of crisis??
A non sequitur , surely ? if he earned less as editor of the Guardian, would his resignation from the PCC be more damaging to the PCC ? Good for Rusbridger, I say. Maybe “crisis” is too strong a word, but it is a problem for the PCC.
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