29 August 2002 – With one bound, Jack was free; once again the Press Complaints Commission has wriggled clear of the threat of legislation, persuading the Lord Chancellor to drop his promise to introduce a law forbidding payments to witnesses … Continue reading
30 July 2002 – The Press Complaints Commission has just published its Annual Review 2001 – and a very glossy and expensive-looking document it is too. On its black front cover are four coloured boxes enshrining the PCC’s main aims: … Continue reading
16 July 2002 – It would be churlish not to welcome Sir Christopher Meyer to his appointment as the next chairman of the Press Complaints Commission. And so we wish him well. The current British ambassador to the U.S. is … Continue reading
9 May 2002 “How cheerfully he seems to grin, How neatly spreads his claws And welcomes little fishes in With gently smiling jaws” Lewis Carroll may not have had Rupert Murdoch in mind when he wrote those lines, but he … Continue reading
Bulletin No 63, 2 May 2002 This is the full text of the last in the 2002 Reith Lecture series, broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 1 May by Onora O’Neill, philosopher and principal of Newnham College, Cambridge. 1. Testing … Continue reading
28 April 2002 – The Press Complaints Commission faces an awkward dilemma this week: what to do about Tony Blair’s complaint that he has been vilified by three publications – The Spectator, the Evening Standard, and The Mail on Sunday. … Continue reading
21 February 2002 – Extracts from a speech by Professor Robert Pinker, Acting Chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, at a Regional Seminar of the Commonwealth Press Union in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on 21 February 2002. An academic and a … Continue reading