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Leveson: The Great Stitch Up?
podcasts |In the wake of the publication of the report and recommendations of the Leveson Inquiry, there is one over-arching question troubling media campaigners: can the owners and editors be trusted to deliver on Lord Justice Leveson’s blueprint for trying to secure the highest ethical standards for newspaper journalists. Nicholas Jones finds out in our latest podcast.
After the great build-up to the publication of the Leveson Report, and then a day of great drama at Westminster, all eyes are now on the newspaper proprietors. Can they deliver on the ultimatum made by the Prime Minister – that unless they work out and accept the introduction of an independent regulator of the press then the government might have to intervene and perhaps Parliament would have to be asked to pass legislation to enforce effective standards which is precisely what Lord Justice Leveson proposed.
The devil is in the detail however, and behind the scenes manoeuvring between newspaper proprietors and Conservative ministers has fuelled concern in the National Union of Journalists that there may be a stitch-up over establishing independent regulation of the press.
In the latest CPBF podcast Nicholas Jones heard the views of Frances O’Grady, the new TUC general secretary, Michelle Stanistreet, leader of the National Union of Journalists, and Julian Petley, co-chair of the CPBF and professor of media studies at Brunel University.
DATELINE: 27 January, 2013
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