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To Responsible Media DECEMBER 2012 www.blueandgreentomorrow.com the Guide to Responsible Media “THE PROBLEM OF POWER IS HOW TO ACHIEVE ITS RESPONSIBLE USE RATHER THAN ITS IRRESPONSIBLE AND INDULGENT USE - OF HOW TO GET MEN OF POWER TO LIVE FOR THE PUBLIC RATHER THAN OFF THE PUBLIC.” ROBERT F KENNEDY About Blue & Green Tomorrow y Essential intelligence on sustainable G investing and living Blue & Green Tomorrow wants to support innovative businesses that balance the ner needs of the planet, its people and our prosperity. e We aim to provide our readers with EDIA the knowledge they need to make M ean informed choices without prejudice, LIFE scaremongering or greenwash. L is for livinG We want the world to be as blue and green tomorrow as it was yesterday. ess C without We believe that everyone can play a part TL and anyone can make a difference. Not by ESPONSIBLE ESPONSIBLE going back through misplaced nostalgia R to some bygone age, but by striding out cosTinG to a bright new future in which we take o Limi advantage of the new approaches that TO TO can improve our quality of life, the food we T the eArth. eat, the air we breathe, the water we drink and the land we live on. There is no Visit Blue & Green Tomorrow blueandgreentomorrow.com Plan (et) B. THE GUIDE GUIDE THE The Guide CoPYriGht & DisClaimer the right of Blue & Green Communications limited to be Blue & Green Communications limited makes no express or identified as the author of this work has been asserted in implicit representation or warranty, and no responsibility accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents act or liability is accepted, with respect to errors or omissions 2000. all rights reserved. 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COMMUNICATIONSCommuniCations 2012 CONTENTS WWW.BLUEANDGREENTOMORROW.COM 04 – FOREWORD THE GUIDE TO TO GUIDE THE 05 – PresS FREEDOM 06 – A shorT HISTORY OF TRYING TO REGULATE AN IRREVERENT, UNRULY AND OPINIONATED PRESS By Simon Leadbetter 10 – TODAy’s mediA LANDSCAPE: WHO OWNS WHAT? 12 – THE REAL NEWSpapER TAX AVOIDANCE SCANDAL By Simon Leadbetter R 13 – A FREE PRESS WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA ESPONSIBLE By Simon Leadbetter 15 – Freedom oF EXPRESSION IS NOT THE SAME AS A FREEDOM TO MISLEAD By Simon Leadbetter 17 – THE LEVESON INQUIRY AND REPORT 19 – Public oPINION M 20 – HACKED OFF OVER THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE PRESS EDIA With Hacked Off 24 – THE CONCLUSION OF HUGH GRAnt’s witnesS STATEMENT TO THE LEVESON INQUIRY 25 – ‘FACTS ARE TO THE MIND WHAT FOOD IS TO THE BODy’ With Full Fact 30 – WHITEWASH AND GREENWASH: THE FICKLE ETHICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE REPORTING By Gavin Smith DECEMBER 34 – Poles ApaRT: THE INTERNATIONAL REPORTING OF CLIMATE 2012 SCEPTICISM 36 – SKEPTICAL Science’s tOP 10 CLIMATE MYTHS 3 ©BLUE & GREEN COMMUNICATIONS 2012 FOREWORD t’s been a tumultuous few years for the British The BBC, which has come under significant criticism press. Allegations of royal phone hacking came of late for its role in the Jimmy Savile and Lord to light in August 2006 – simply a case of “rogue McAlpine scandals, has gone about its business Ireporter” according to News International. In admirably. Top executives promptly resigned and July 2009, The Guardian published details of large independent investigations were swiftly set up. payments to leading football figures and revealed that Compare that to the behaviour of News International, there were up to 3,000 other potential victims of which overlooked phone hacking activities for a phone hacking. number years, and denied it had happened until it was What followed was two very long years of strong eventually forced to close its most popular title, The denial by News International (NI) executives, News of the World. confusion by the PCC and police and a staunch So we’re talking about a number of weeks versus a defence of NI by a few leading politicians, who number of years. debunked the original Guardian story. Our Guide to Responsible Media examines the aftermath of the Leveson report, while also tackling EDIA On the July 4 2011, The Guardian broke the news that the mobile phone of the murdered schoolgirl the subjects of press freedom, freedom of expression M Milly Dowler had been hacked. Three days later and regulation. This is on top of interviews with ,amidst widespread revulsion, The News of the Hacked Off, the leading campaigning body for a free World – one of the best-selling newspapers in Britain and accountable press, and Full Fact, an organisation – closed, ending 168 years of continuous publishing. that promotes accuracy in the press. This in turn spawned independent, parliamentary We look at the difference between freedom of and new police inquiries into the ethics and illegal expression and the freedom to mislead and ask do we activities of newspapers. really have a ‘free’ press – or one owned by powerful The main recommendation of Lord Justice Leveson’s people with a specific economic agenda. landmark report, which was released at the end of There is also a section on climate change - one of the November this year, called for the establishment of an most hotly debated subjects in 21st century media - ESPONSIBLE ESPONSIBLE independent regulatory body, underpinned by statute. and why reporting of the issue is often fickle. R Questions remain as to whether the prime minister Robert F Kennedy once said, “The problem of power and newspaper editors will agree to such a body, but is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its TO TO what is clear from various polls is that the majority of irresponsible and indulgent use – of how to get men of the public are behind stronger independent regulation power to live for the public rather than off the public.” for the UK’s newspapers. Marking their own Truly independent regulation and more effective homework simply isn’t good enough anymore. redress, coupled with a greater emphasis on ethics When we asked our readers how they thought and responsibility, would go a long way to reinstalling newspapers in Britain should be regulated, an public confidence in Britain’s essential free press. overwhelming 74% said there should be an independent body, established by law, that deals with complaints and decides what sanctions there THE GUIDE GUIDE THE should be if journalists break agreed codes of EDITOR, BLUE & GREEN TOMORROW conduct – essentially exactly what the Leveson report recommends. Only 5% said that newspapers should establish their own regulator, while 11% said neither. Which of the following statements comes closer to your Good, honest, investigative journalism would view on how you think newspapers in Britain should be regulated? not suffer in this scenario. The press could continue to hold public figures to account, There should be an independent body, established by law, which scrutinise policy and report on issues of real 74% deals with complaints and decides what sanctions there should be if journalists break agreed codes of conduct DECEMBER public interest, but unethical, immoral and illegal activities – phone hacking, intrusion, Newspapers should establish their own body which deals 5% with complaints and decides what sanctions there should 2012 threatening, bribing, harassing and so on – be if journalists break agreed codes of conduct would be condemned. And rightly so. Newspapers currently receive the least Neither stringent regulation possible – much less 11% 4 so than the broadcast media, for example, which seems able to conduct frequent 11% Don't know investigative reports perfectly freely. But even ©BLUE & GREEN the staunchest advocates of press regulation COMMUNICATIONS 2012 don’t think newspapers should be as heavily regulated as TV or radio. Source: Blue & Green Tomorrow blueandgreentomorrow.com Index Score for 2011-2012 for Score Index the press. of freedom greater to corresponds in the index smaller score A year. previous in the records freedom press the countries' of assessment upon the organisation's based Borders Without Reporters and published by compiled countries of annual ranking is an Index Freedom The Press Press Freedom Press Index Score for 2011-2012 for Score Index the press. of freedom greater to corresponds in the index smaller score
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