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Broadcast Bulletin Issue Number
Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin Issue number 179 4 April 2011 1 Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, Issue 179 4 April 2011 Contents Introduction 3 Standards cases In Breach Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights (comments about Harvey Price) Channel 4, 7 December 2010, 22:00 5 [see page 37 for other finding on Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights (mental health sketch and other issues)] Elite Days Elite TV (Channel 965), 30 November 2011, 12:00 to 13:15 Elite TV (Channel 965), 1 December 2010, 13:00 to 14:00 Elite TV 2 (Channel 914), 8 December 2010, 10.00 to 11:30 Elite Nights Elite TV (Channel 965), 30 November 2011, 22:30 to 23:35 Elite TV 2 (Channel 914), 6 December 2010, 21:00 to 21:25 Elite TV (Channel 965), 16 December 2010, 21:00 to 21:45 Elite TV (Channel 965), 22 December 2010, 00:50 to 01:20 Elite TV (Channel 965), 4 January 2011, 22:00 to 22:30 13 Page 3 Zing, 8 January 2011, 13:00 27 Deewar: Men of Power Star India Gold, 11 January 2011, 18:00 29 Bridezilla Wedding TV, 11 and 12 January 2011, 18:00 31 Resolved Dancing On Ice ITV1, 23 January 2011, 18:10 33 Not in Breach Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights (mental health sketch and other issues) Channel 4, 30 November 2010 to 29 December 2010, 22:00 37 [see page 5 for other finding on Frankie Boyle’s Tramadol Nights (comments about Harvey Price)] Top Gear BBC2, 30 January 2011, 20:00 44 2 Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, Issue 179 4 April 2011 Advertising Scheduling Cases In Breach Breach findings table Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising compliance reports 47 Resolved Resolved findings table Code on the Scheduling of Television Advertising compliance reports 49 Fairness and Privacy cases Not Upheld Complaint by Mr Zac Goldsmith MP Channel 4 News, Channel 4, 15 and 16 July 2010 50 Other programmes not in breach 73 3 Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin, Issue 179 4 April 2011 Introduction The Broadcast Bulletin reports on the outcome of investigations into alleged breaches of those Ofcom codes and licence conditions with which broadcasters regulated by Ofcom are required to comply. -
Newsnight, BBC Two, 2 November 2012 Finding of 14 December 2012
Finding of the Editorial Standards Committee of the BBC Trust Newsnight, BBC Two, 2 November 2012 Finding of 14 December 2012 Getting the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers Finding of the Editorial Standards Committee of the BBC Trust Contents Summary 1 ESC Finding 3 Appendix 1: The MacQuarrie Report 10 Appendix 2: Report by the BBC Executive 25 Appendix 3: The Editorial Guidelines 31 Finding of 14 December 2012 Finding of the Editorial Standards Committee of the BBC Trust Summary On 2 November 2012, Newsnight broadcast a report into child sexual abuse in North Wales care homes in the 1970s and 1980s (the “Newsnight Report”). In the Newsnight Report, it was claimed that two victims had been abused by “a leading Conservative politician from the Thatcher years”. The alleged perpetrator was not identified. By the time the Newsnight Report was broadcast, there had been 12 hours of speculation online regarding the identity of the alleged perpetrator. We now know that the man anonymously alleged to be the perpetrator in the Newsnight Report was Lord McAlpine. The following week, on 9 November 2012, Newsnight broadcast their own apology and also included a clip of an interview that had been recorded with the abuse victim, Mr Messham, earlier that day, in which he offered his “humble apologies to Lord McAlpine” for wrongly identifying him as the abuser. The then Director-General of the Executive, George Entwistle, commissioned a report by Ken MacQuarrie, Director Scotland, into what had happened (the “MacQuarrie Report”) (see Appendix -
Rethinking Britain and the European Union: Politicians, the Media and Public Opinion Reconsidered
View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Aston Publications Explorer Rethinking Britain and the European Union: politicians, the media and public opinion reconsidered Paul Copeland School of Politics and International Relations Queen Mary University of London Mile End Road London E1 4NS And Nathaniel Copsey Politics and International Relations Aston University B4 7ET 1 Rethinking Britain and the European Union: politicians, the media and public opinion reconsidered1 Introduction For more than 40 years since the British accession to the then Common Market in 1973, the UK’s relationship with the European project could be characterised as fragile and sceptical. Following Wilson’s brief renegotiation in 1974, the UK’s 1975 referendum produced a majority in favour of continued membership (67 per cent with a turnout of 65 per cent). Whilst the membership question was never fully dropped, a cross-party consensus existed, although both the Labour and Conservative parties contained Eurosceptic factions. The enduring fragile consensus was based on a form of economic integration that incurred neither large budgetary cost, nor led to an erosion of Britain’s sovereignty. This grudging cross-party consensus changed in January 2013. That month, Prime Minister David Cameron announced that if the Conservative party were to form the government after the 2015 general election, it would hold an ‘in-or-out’ referendum on the renegotiated terms of Britain’s membership before the end of 2017. It is worth briefly exploring the recent historical background to this change. From the early 1990s to the mid-2010s, EU-wide and UK-specific pressures to hold a referendum steadily increased. -
Media and the Formation of Scottish Parliament
Brigham Young University BYU ScholarsArchive Undergraduate Honors Theses 2019-12-19 Media and the Formation of Scottish Parliament Emily Ashcraft Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub_uht BYU ScholarsArchive Citation Ashcraft, Emily, "Media and the Formation of Scottish Parliament" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 99. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub_uht/99 This Honors Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Undergraduate Honors Theses by an authorized administrator of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. Honors Thesis MEDIA AND THE FORMATION OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT by Emily J. Ashcraft Submitted to Brigham Young University in partial fulfillment of graduation requirements for University Honors School of Communications Brigham Young University December 2019 Advisor: Joel Campbell Honors Coordinator: Clark Callahan ABSTRACT MEDIA AND THE FORMATION OF SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT Emily J. Ashcraft School of Communications Bachelor of Arts The thesis explored how media interacts with politics, specifically the Scottish Parliament, by considering the representation of the Scottish Parliament in newspapers from the time the Scots voted for a parliament (1997) through the years following the beginning of the Scottish Parliament (1999-2003). It compared various newspapers from Scotland and the United Kingdom during this time and examined their reporting on the parliament. It also evaluated specific differences between the UK and Scottish Parliaments, where they originated and how newspapers and other media were involved in the conversation. This research found that press representation and media framing is important in the formation of government, the Scottish press discussed what the new Parliament could look like and facilitated discussion about the future of the Parliament. -
Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England
Tabloid media campaigns and public opinion: Quasi-experimental evidence on Euroscepticism in England Florian Foos London School of Economics & Political Science Daniel Bischof University of Zurich March 3, 2021 Abstract Whether powerful media outlets have eects on public opinion has been at the heart of theoret- ical and empirical discussions about the media’s role in political life. Yet, the eects of media campaigns are dicult to study because citizens self-select into media consumption. Using a quasi-experiment – the 30-years boycott of the most important Eurosceptic tabloid newspaper, The Sun, in Merseyside caused by the Hillsborough soccer disaster – we identify the eects of The Sun boycott on attitudes towards leaving the EU. Dierence-in-dierences designs using public opinion data spanning three decades, supplemented by referendum results, show that the boycott caused EU attitudes to become more positive in treated areas. This eect is driven by cohorts socialised under the boycott, and by working class voters who stopped reading The Sun. Our findings have implications for our understanding of public opinion, media influence, and ways to counter such influence, in contemporary democracies. abstract=150 words; full manuscript (excluding abstract)=11,915 words. corresponding author: Florian Foos, [email protected]. Assistant Professor in Political Behaviour, Department of Govern- ment, London School of Economics & Political Science. Houghton Street, London, WC2A 2AE, UK. Phone: +44 (0)7491976187. Daniel Bischof, SNF Ambizione Grant Holder, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich. Aolternstrasse 56, 8050 Zurich, CH. Phone: +41 (0)44 634 58 50. Both authors contributed equally to this paper; the order of the authors’ names reflects the principle of rotation. -
Rebranding the Scottish Executive
Pre-review version Please note that this is an pre-review version of an article that has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Language and Politics 12(1), to appear early in 2013. Contact the publisher (John Benjamins) for permission to re-use the material, or the author with any other questions. Please do not cite without permission and respect the publisher’s copyright. Biodata Johann W Unger is a Lecturer and Academic Director of Summer Programmes at Lancaster University’s Department of Linguistics and English Language. His recent publications include ‘Legitimating inaction : differing identity constructions of the Scots language’ in the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and ‘Economic discourses of Scots on Bourdieu’s “Linguistic Market”’ in the edited volume Language and Economic Development. He is Associate Editor of the book series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture. Author details Full name: Johann Wolfgang Unger Affiliation: Lancaster University Correspondence Details: Department of Linguistics and English Language Lancaster University County South College Lancaster LA1 4YL Telephone: +44 1524 592591 E-mail: [email protected] Rebranding the Scottish Executive: a discourse-historical analysis Abstract This paper examines the change in name of the devolved governing body of Scotland from the Scottish Executive (1999-2007) to the Scottish Government (2007-present) following the majority result for the Scottish National Party in the 2007 Scottish Parliament elections. In the wider European political landscape this is unusual: while ministries, departments and even political parties change their names relatively frequently, the same cannot be said for top- level political institutions. -
Vienna Workshop on the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred: List of Experts
Vienna workshop on the prohibition of incitement to hatred: Biography of experts Agnès Callamard Dr. Agnès Callamard is the Executive Director of ARTICLE 19. Under her direction, ARTICLE 19 has strengthened its leadership of cutting edge public policy issues, and grown in size with the opening of 5 regional offices across the world. Agnès founded and led HAP (Humanitarian Accountability Partnership), the first international self-regulatory body for humanitarian actors. At HAP she oversaw field trials on accountability to beneficiaries in Afghanistan, Cambodia and Sierra Leone. She is the former Chef de Cabinet for the Secretary General of Amnesty International (AI) where she played a key role in establishing an effective senior management system and also led policy work on women’s human rights. Agnès also served as a board member for IFEX (International Freedom of Expression Exchange), a membership-based NGO comprised of over 80 member organizations and operating in more than 50 countries, the majority of which are in the developing world and in countries in transition. Agnès has investigated human rights abuses in a diverse number of countries across the world’s regions including in Africa, Asia, and the Middle East. She has undertaken extensive media work and presented human rights concerns to a wide range of public forums. She has also worked extensively in the field of refugee and IDPs movements. Agnès has published broadly and holds a PhD in Political Science from the New School for Social Research in New York. Aidan White Aidan White is the General Secretary of the International Federation of Journalists. -
Constructing the European Union in Canadian News
Constructing the European Union in Canadian News Copyright © 2008 Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines http://cadaad.org/ejournal Vol 2 (2): 67 – 89 ISSN: 1752-3079 STEFFI RETZLAFF AND STEFAN GÄNZLE Mc Master University, University of British Columbia [email protected], [email protected] Abstract This paper analyses the representation of the EU in Canadian print media focusing in particular on the EU’s 50th anniversary in March 2007. Assuming that the ways by which the European Union (EU) is being construed by the world media co-determines the EU’s role and, probably, its effectiveness as an international actor, we apply this hypothesis to the case of Canada. By utilising Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) as our methodological tool, this paper analyses the reception and representation of the EU in Canadian print media, and further unveils the discursive strategies employed by different media outlets. 1. Introduction The identification and analyses of linguistic means used to represent the EU in Canadian print media are central objectives of our study: In this paper, we are particularly interested in the ways by which the EU‘s 50th anniversary (March 25, 2007) has been covered by media sources. This event has provided a unique opportunity for the media to report on the EU in broader terms, in ways somewhat detached from day-to-day business. Furthermore, it also presents a distinctive occasion to contemplate the pros and cons of the European project. Our central argument maintains that the presence and effectiveness of the EU on the world stage are dependent on the ways by which it is being recognised and construed as a political entity. -
English Language Blog, Flying Carpets and Broken Pipelines
Dunja Mijatović Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović of Bosnia and Herzegovina took over the post in March 2010. Mijatović was a founder of the Communications Regulatory Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In 2007 she was elected Chair of the European Platform of Regulatory Agencies. She also chaired the Council of Europe’s Group of Specialists on freedom of expression and information in times of crisis. Mijatović is an expert in human rights; communications and media strategy and regulatory and media policy. She has extensive knowledge of institution-building in transitional states and many years of experience in issues related to journalists’ safety and new media, including digitalization, convergence and the Internet Frane Maroevic Recently appointed Director of the Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media, Frane Maroevic previously held the post of Senior Advisor in the Office. He began his career at the OSCE in 2010 as the Deputy Head of Press and Public Information. Before joining the OSCE he was the Director of Communications for the High Representative and EU Special Representative in Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as the Spokesperson for the European Commission in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a journalist with the BBC World Service in London. Arzu Geybullayeva A graduate of Ankara’s Bilkent University and the London School of Economics, Baku born Geybullayeva has worked for a number of think tanks, research institutes, non-profit organisations and news outlets as a writer, journalist and Caucasus regional analyst. She has worked as a co-director at the Imagine Center for Conflict Transformation, a non-profit organisation that promotes dialogue, cooperation and peace-building processes in conflict- torn societies. -
Europe's Media in the Digital Decade
STUDY Requested by the CULT Committee Europe’s media in the digital decade An action plan to support recovery and transformation in the news media sector Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies Directorate-General for Internal Policies PE 690.873 - May 2021 EN RESEARCH FOR CULT COMMITTEE Europe’s media in the digital decade An action plan to support recovery and transformation in the news media sector Abstract The Media Action Plan released by the European Commission in December 2020 is the first policy document explicitly setting out a vision and dedicated initiatives for the news media sector. This paper discusses the current situation of the sector and its revenue streams, the important impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the main public and private funding models to support the sector. This document was requested by the European Parliament's Committee on Culture and Education. AUTHORS KEA European Affairs: Arthur LE GALL Research administrator: Katarzyna ISKRA Project, publication and communication assistance: Anna DEMBEK, Kinga OSTAŃSKA Policy Department for Structural and Cohesion Policies, European Parliament LINGUISTIC VERSIONS Original: EN ABOUT THE PUBLISHER To contact the Policy Department or to subscribe to updates on our work for the CULT Committee please write to: [email protected] Manuscript completed in May 2021 © European Union, 2021 This document is available on the internet in summary with option to download the full text at: https://bit.ly/3h29SIM This document is available on the internet -
The Future of Investigative Journalism
HOUSE OF LORDS Select Committee on Communications 3rd Report of Session 2010–12 The future of investigative journalism Report Ordered to be printed 31 January 2012 and published 16 February 2012 Published by the Authority of the House of Lords London : The Stationery Office Limited £14.50 HL Paper 256 The Select Committee on Communications The Select Committee on Communications was appointed by the House of Lords on 22 June 2010 with the orders of reference “to consider the media and the creative industries.” Current Membership Lord Bragg Lord Clement-Jones Baroness Deech Baroness Fookes Lord Gordon of Strathblane Lord Inglewood (Chairman) Lord Macdonald of Tradeston Bishop of Norwich Lord Razzall Lord St John of Bletso Earl of Selborne Lord Skelmersdale Declaration of Interests See Appendix 1. A full list of Members’ interests can be found in the Register of Lords’ Interests: http://www.parliament.uk/mps-lords-and-offices/standards-and-interests/register-of-lords-interests Publications All publications of the Committee are available on the internet at: http://www.parliament.uk/hlcommunications Parliament Live Live coverage of debates and public sessions of the Committee’s meetings are available at: www.parliamentlive.tv General Information General Information about the House of Lords and its Committees, including guidance to witnesses, details of current inquiries and forthcoming meetings is on the internet at: http://www.parliament.uk/business/lords Committee Staff The current staff of the Committee are Anna Murphy (Clerk), Alan Morrison (Policy Analyst) and Rita Logan (Committee Assistant). Contact Details All correspondence should be addressed to the Clerk of the Select Committee on Communications, Committee Office, House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW. -
Ethics and the Journalist Allegiance to a Code Is an Important Way of Defining Who Is and Who Is Not a Journalist
TRUTHTO TELL YOU THE By Aidan White No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the publisher. The contents of this book are copyrighted and the rights to use of contributions rests with the author. Photo on page 85: Alan Johnston, a BBC journalist, is surrounded by Hamas fighters and other people after he was released in Gaza July 4, 2007. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA) Author: Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary Design: Mary Schrider, [email protected] Printed by Druk. Hoeilaart, Belgium Published in Belgium by the International Federation of Journalists © 2008 International Federation of Journalists International Press Centre Residence Palace, Block C 155 rue de la Loi B - 1040 Brussels Belgium This book has been produced with the support of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Contents Foreword................................................................................................................................................................... i IFJ Declaration of Principles on the Conduct of Journalists ..................................................................................... ii The IFJ Code of Principles for the Conduct of Journalism: A Global Standard for Ethics .........................................iii Introduction.............................................................................................................................................................iv CHAPTER 1: Ethical Journalism Initiative Ethical Journalism Initiative: From Aspirations