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How Leveson Got It Wrong Page 8 FREE£1 No 215 Summer 2018 Journal Press of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom MEDIA REFORM 3 END OF THE NINE VOTES, ROAD FOR CPBF AGM to discuss closure THAT’S ALL of the campaign IT CAME TO ON MAY 9, by 304 to 295, the Commons killed off the continuation of the Leveson Inquiry that had done so much to check the power and corruption of Big Media. How Leveson Another vote a week later confirmed the sentence, and Parliamentary support for attempts to enact the got it wrong 4 last elements of Leveson’s proposals for reform fell THEY THINK away. The Labour Party dropped its amendment to Page 8 confirm the incentives for publishers to offer arbitra- IT’S ALL OVER tion to everyone with complaints against the press, But investigative and that was the formal end of a seven-year battle for This was wholly untrue. There had been no journalism thrives media justice. extinction threat, and the move could actually weaken It was back to business as usual with a desperate a free press if a government wanted to. right-wing government pandering to a rampant All along, IPSO has dragged its feet on arbitration. right-wing press. After two years, it grudgingly introduced a voluntary The phone-hacking scandal in 2011 had launched the scheme. Publishers were not required to join this strongest protest ever mounted against the big media scheme, nor to agree to arbitrate every complaint publishers. It brought the sensational Leveson Inquiry even if they did. There were restrictive conditions for and its legal changes to introduce fairness to media complainants on costs and awards, and no cases were regulation. Much has been enacted, but the worst and ever brought. biggest offenders have bullied their way out of it. In April IPSO announced what it called a The papers would not agree to a fair system of “compulsory” scheme, though signing up to it is still arbitration to settle complaints without incurring the voluntary; some have chosen to join, some not. If they fantastic costs and time consumed do, they will have to accept arbitra- by defamation cases in the courts. Now the state run by tion, provided IPSO considers the 7 Leveson granted the power to the papers’ friends case is “genuine”. supervise this system to the Press The amount that arbitrators can ‘MY RACIST Recognition Panel (PRP), a body can endorse any award, and the limit to the costs PAPER’ meticulously established to be derisory scheme the that complainants can recover, have free of government influence. But been raised, but are still restricted Honesty from new Parliament decided to override this media owners choose compared with the courts. editor of Express process and grant the supervisory In the Commons Matt Hancock power to Culture Secretary Matt Hancock. praised the scheme: “I think that the low cost arbitra- It was a brutal act of double dealing and dishonesty: tion they brought in is good for the press and good the press’s rallying cry against Leveson’s plans was that for ordinary people who want redress.” The change they constituted state control, even though their whole he was proposing gave authority to the Culture point was to avoid it. Secretary to review it to ensure its continuing “use But now the state run by the papers’ friends does and effectiveness”. have control and can endorse any derisory scheme He said it would be “up for the government of the the media owners choose to adopt through their day” to decide how to proceed if the Culture Secretary stooge “self-regulator” IPSO (Independent Press was unhappy with the outcome of the review. If that Standards Organisation). isn’t potential government control, what is? For all campaign news and Highlighting the duplicity, the Sun commented: The last hope for change lies in a legal challenge to info go to cpbf.org.uk “The Government, and Culture Secretary Matt Hancock, the government’s actions on Leveson by the campaign Email: have saved the free Press from near-extinction. We group Hacked Off, which is expected to be heard by the [email protected] salute them.” High Court in October. FUTURES Democracy in the media? Why not? More than 100 media activists took part in a day of talking and listening in London in March organised by the Media Reform Coalition. MORAG LIVINGSTONE was there for Fee Press FRUSTRATION AND hope on the faces of those trying to find a seat at the opening plenary of this year’s Media Democracy Festival in London in March was obvious. Some failed and sat on the floor instead. The theme of “faking it, breaking it, re-making it” echoed the challenges and opportunities facing the industry and the billing brought them in, despite blizzard conditions weather. Invited speakers from both corporate (or “mainstream”) and alternative or “new” media could have created a culture clash, but didn’t. Speakers at the Media Fund general meeting in May Opening the event Natalie Fenton, chair of the Media Reform Coalition, set the tone saying: MONEY WHERE IT’S NEEDED “Freedom without accountability is freedom of A RADICAL group that each of the now 40-plus in which everyone gets the the powerful over the many”. aims to secure the member organisations and chance to join discussions Guardian columnist Dawn Foster’s keynote funding for new and establish a £20,000 pot for on media policy. More address showed that “mainstream” editors alternative media has which they will be able to are planned for the missed a number of big issues, including the launched a programme pitch their projects. regional events. state of UK housing. Before the Grenfell Tower to raise £60,000 over the The tours will consist of The fund’s Kallum catastrophe editors did not give those who raised next year. media training for Future Pembro said the News safety concerns a voice, despite journalists like her trying to highlight poor housing standards for The Media Fund, a of the Media discussion Clubs were for “news a number of years. collective of independent sessions around the hounds” to debate the Editors assume such issues don’t sell. Instead news outlets of which country. They will be week’s hot topics. “News they serve up immigrants and those on benefits the CPBF is a member, repeats of similar events Club Live is a live debate as scapegoats for the housing problem. This is planning two UK held last year. The aim is to show,” he said, “that failure to represent voices outside their own nationwide tours over the hold over 100 events in the combines a panel of world, or to hold those in power to account, was next six months with the next six months. experts with a room full of horrifically borne out in the devastating and aim of recruiting 1,000 These were decisions of news hounds to dissect the tragic consequences of the fire. new members. At just £5 the Media Fund general news stories of the week, Dawn Foster heard her editors ask: “How did each a month that will meeting in Sheffield on taking apart what has been we miss this?” There was suddenly a focus on raise enough by the end of May 31. It also saw the first reported and uncovering the responsibility and accountability of those the year to give £1,000 to session of the News Clubs what has been left out.” potentially responsible but it didn’t last long. The paper soon returned to its “traditional” ways of reporting. Shabi later confirmed that they do believe The Financial Times’s much-praised investi- She said the Guardian also took an odd stance the mainstream is where reasonable thinking gation of The President’s Club, the lewd all-male on the calls to resume the Leveson Inquiry. The takes place. gathering for City financiers, was the most read CPBF then tweeted: “Imagine construction firms Shabi was speaking in the session titled story the paper ever had. People will read and saying we should scrap the Grenfell inquiry “What’s wrong with the media?” with Anamik pay for high quality journalism, and the tendency because improved building regulations might Saha of Goldsmiths University, David Miller to negatively collectivise the commercial media cost them money. That is exactly the argument (Spinwatch) and former Corbyn spokesman as bad was not always warranted. newspapers, including the Guardian, made about Matt Zarb-Cousin. They analysed the monolithic The ways newspapers generate revenue Leveson ≤”. A smart point, picked up later in structures of our industry which decide who was under discussion in “What’s wrong with the panel Policy, Plurality and Press Regulation belongs and who doesn’t, and how “representa- advertising?” – the question the CPBF’s Jonathan by Brian Cathcart of Hacked Off. The Leveson ≤ tion is a matter of social justice”. Hardy posed to the panel. inquiry is much needed and we need to fight for Campaigner Roz Hardie suggested that it, he said. DISCUSSION AROUND the economic pressure to advertising “wants us to buy stuff we don’t Dawn Foster emphasised that many in generate stories quickly, based on few sources, need”. James Cusick (Open Democracy) high- corporate media believe they have a wide range was countered with examples of long-form lighted how the Evening Standard often reports of views and her Guardian colleague Rachel articles getting the most traffic. on events such as the Future of Food sponsored 2 Free Press Summer 2018 FUTURES CPBF Democracy in the media? Why not? THIS COULD BE THE END OF THE ROAD JANINA STRUK JANINA JOSEF DAVIES- structure and status as an unincorpo- rated association are all no longer fit COATES sets for purpose.
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