Today's Parliamentary debate about Rupert Murdoch – “hanging the Great Satan out to dry” was the way one writer put it – was the day of come-uppance that MPs have been eagerly awaiting ever since the newspapers shamed them over their expenses. It was pay-back time...
By Jackie Harrison When James Murdoch made his MacTaggart speech entitled ‘The Absence of Trust’ in August 2009 he criticized regulatory constraints in the broadcasting sector for creating unaccountable institutions such as the BBC Trust, Channel 4 and Ofcom. In his...
By Ralph Negrine The events surrounding the demise of the News of the World has focused our minds, once more, on what should be considered legitimate and permissible practice in journalism and, indeed, in the pursuit of ‘the story’. That the NotW may have used...
Heidi Hautala is the Finnish Member of the European Parliament (Greens, European Free Alliance Group) Interview for the Political Aspects study of the initiative on impunity and the rule of law, 7/4/2011, (Highlighted in bold are passages cited in the Political...
Sophie in ‘t Veld is the Vice-chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs and Dutch Rep belonging to the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe Interview for the Political Aspects study of the initiative on impunity...
Dunja Mijatovic is the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFOM) Interview for the Political Aspects study of the Initiaitve on Impunity and the Rule of Law, 24/3/2011, (Highlighted in bold are passages cited in the Political Aspects Study) - On the growth of...
Miklos Haraszti is the Former OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (2004-2010); Currenty Adjunct Professor at the School of Public and International Affairs of Columbia Law School, New York, USA Interview for the Political Aspects Study of the Initiative on...
Rodney Pinder is the Director of The International News Safety Institute (INSI) , Written Commentary for the Political Aspects Study of the Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law, 23/5/2011, (Highlighted passage is cited in the Political Aspects Study) On...