Tuesday, December 27, 2011

Leveson inquiry: yes, let's be honest, we do have two presses

9:29 PM | Posted by Free Game Zone | | Edit Post

In a hastily arranged contribution to the ad hoc for the seminar on October 6 Leveson told me that we had two presses in Britain. I received some criticism for this, but it was not a radical view.

I said the same thing several times over the past 20 years. And many other people have said well, including Hugh Grant, who told the inquiry Leveson:

"What I see in this country are two presses that does exactly what a good press -.. should inform the public, with a mirror of society, have the power to consider

And hiding under the same umbrella, the second one was allowed into something toxic - a press that has weakened and discredited our democracy by bribing the police, parliament and sterilization competitive advantage flattery five successive governments. "

We have a serious press operates, in general, the public interest. We have a popular press, with an agenda around human interests.

has been a gradual shift in recent years to about 100. Newspapers originally avoided serious matters of human interest, although the Daily Telegraph has led some (legal matters the most lucrative).

Now The Guardian, The Independent and The Times published a certain amount of content that is clearly outside the category of public interest. This did not compromise its fundamental mission, however.

Pop

papers have moved in the opposite direction. Initially devoted considerable space to the public interest, including coverage of events abroad.

over time, a low bass to the point where they no longer exist at all (Daily Star) or very low density (Daily Mirror and the Sun).

appears in the middle market - Daily Mail and Daily Express - take longer, but almost everything is trivialized, leaning heavily (usually two) and often inaccurate. Therefore, no redemptive value of public service.

recognize that there is nothing inherently wrong with the papers to raise the skills of human interest above public interest. Millions of readers, much more to read the serious press, enjoy it.

The combination of the public interest and human interest content worked well in the birth of the local press at the beginning of last century, and possibly six decades and more after that.
  • But the divergence between the content and intent of the serious press - even considering that it has adopted a populist - and that all work has grown in pop for 30 years
  • As Leveson research evidence has shown that the distinction between the content of the two presses have led to a difference in the methodology of journalism.
  • The obsession with celebrity is an emerging phenomenon of paper, to obtain journalistic methods increasingly ugly.
  • Nothing seems to have learned, for example, the persistent pursuit of Princess Diana. After his death, the votes for the emerging role of the editors not to publish paparazzi photos were quickly forgotten.
  • The result was a relentless harassment of celebrities (shown by experiments of Sienna Miller), freelance photographers just because the market appears to offer your images.
However, it is important to note that the habits of celebrities born fighter was used to make life unbearable for non-celebrities such as Kate and Gerry McCann.

even though piracy cell phone probably started with the famous (and Royals), which ended up being used in each case -. Milly Dowler death, the attacks of 7 / 7 and without the war in Afghanistan


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