13 Press: Case Studies
PRESS – CASE STUDIES
You need to have some ‘CASE STUDIES’ – ie some recent examples of PCC cases and also one or two libel cases. Try to slip these into your essays. You only need a few.We did some PCC cases in class and you can find these again (or find new ones) at: http://www.pcc.org.uk/cases/adjudicated.html?
Otherwise, you can pick a few from the guardian page: http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/0,,361772,00.html
If you don’t want to do either of these things, you can use the summaries below and click on the links:
PCC: Love Borat story ‘not nice’: A Scottish News of the World story abut a “Love Borat”, which exposed a man’s web liaison with women from Kazakhstan, was a breach of privacy according to the PCC.
Heat pays out in Jordan row: Katie Price – aka Jordan – has withdrawn her complaint abut a Heat sticker mocking her disabled son Harvey after the magazine apologised in today’s edition and made a donation to charity. The PCC has now dropped a formal investigation into the sticker, which showed Harvey’s face and was captioned “Harvey wants to eat me”.
Paper cleared over YouTube clip: The PCC cleared a local newspaper after it used YouTube footage of youths throwing firebombs aty a freight train and setting it alight…children under 16 “must not be interviewed or photographed on issues involving their own or another child’s welfare” without adult consent.
In light of this week’s £25,000 payout to a
Belfast restaurant, should the press be punished for publishing the comments of a critic? http://media.guardian.co.uk/medialaw/story/0,,2009816,00.html
A shift from self-regulation to the law courts could see far more effective protection of a celebrity’s privacyhttp://media.guardian.co.uk/medialaw/story/0,,2009835,00.html
Privacy laws may give Kate Middleton a cause of action but will they offer her any real protection?http://www.guardian.co.uk/monarchy/story/0,,1987235,00.html
New newspaper guidelines designed to help prevent the “international phenomenon” of copycat suicides following high-profile media coverage will today be announced by the Press Complaints Commission. Following controversy over the coverage of the death of lawyer Katherine Ward, who was pictured by some newspapers jumping from a hotel window in Kensington, west London, groups led by the Samaritans have lobbied hard for the introduction of a specific provision covering suicide. http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,1808533,00.htmlThe News of the World and the Sun have paid England footballer Ashley Cole more than £100,000 in damages for falsely suggesting that he was involved in a “gay orgy”, according to sources.http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,1806152,00.html
It is time that the Press Complaints Commission acted on behalf of Maxine Carr. She has not made a complaint because, as her lawyers says, she is in the unique position – given her anonymity – of not being able to defend herself. But newspapers are using that loophole as a way of publishing completely untrue stories about the woman.http://media.guardian.co.uk/mediaguardian/story/0,,1484525,00.html
Journalists who illegally sell or use personal information could go to jail for up to two years after tougher penalties were unveiled by the Department for Constitutional Affairs today.http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,2007897,00.htmlThe Press Complaints Commission has rejected a breach of privacy complaint from Tommy Sheridan’s wife about a long-lens photograph of her standing in her back garden. Gail Sheridan, wife of the Scottish politician who won £200,000 from the News of the World in a libel action last year, complained that the photograph breached the privacy clause of the PCC code.http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,2085592,00.html
The Press Complaints Commission today launched a review of phone hacking, asking all newspaper and magazine editors to explain their internal controls aimed at preventing fishing expeditions. The PCC acted after the News of the World royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for four months for phone hacking staff members of the royal household, forcing the resignation of the paper’s editor Andy Coulson. The PCC has dropped its proposed questioning of Coulson but has decided to question his successor, Colin Myler, who took up his post this week. http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,2003608,00.htmlThe Press Complaints Commission appears to have changed its mind about what constitutes “a reasonable expectation of privacy” by upholding a complaint by the model-turned-actress, Elle Macpherson, against Hello! magazine.http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/greenslade/2007/02/pcc_changes_mind_over_sneak_be.html
The Press Complaints Commission has significantly tightened its rules on reporting pregnancy with a verdict in favour of singer Charlotte Church against the Sun . The PCC ruled that the newspaper intruded into the singer’s privacy in February when it reported rumours that she was pregnant, in a story headlined “Baby rumours for sober Church”.http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,2077007,00.html
Milton Keynes newspaper MK News breached the press watchdog’s privacy code by publishing medical information about a mother whose daughter had died suddenly, the Press Complaints Commission ruled today. The PCC upheld a privacy complaint against MK News after a local couple, Mr and Mrs Addai-Twumasi, objected that the newspaper had published speculation that their 13-year-old daughter had killed herself after learning about her mother’s medical condition. http://media.guardian.co.uk/pressprivacy/story/0,,2059113,00.html
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