About as fatuous as it gets...

This is what we need. Publications calling out the bad actors of their profession.

Mapping the failure of Leveson in light of the refusal of the billionaire press to be regulated (from the just published long-awaited Press Recognition Panel Report). #IPSO #PRP

Trevor Phillips: senior fellow at Policy Exchange. A long way from his time as Chair of the Commission for Racial Equality. What happens to these people?

Almost worse than the stupidity of denial is the stupidity of denying what he knows to be true, as his consistent cherrypicking of research data attests.

The rightwing capture of the regulators continues. They still walk amongst us. https://bylinetimes.com/2023/07/28/media-watchdog-ofcom-ignores-complaints-about-climate-science-denial-on-gb-news-and-right-wing-outlets/

The kind of Incitement that would have seen editors in gaol. Part 2 of the Serious Crime Act of 2007 created the statutory crime of intentionally encouraging an offence. The act included a clause stating that it was “not a defence to a charge of incitement that the other person… does not commit the offence,”. However, section 59 later removed this caveat giving culture warrior commentators a ‘get out of jail free’ card whatever the consequences of their rhetoric.

Bears repeating over and over again…