The media must be free, but it must be responsible, and when it is irresponsible, the people must have redress. It is my view that the Media Complaints Council is woefully inadequate to the the challenges facing a public and those in public life who have felt the brunt of a rampaging media with brutal intent unrestrained, and it is time that we had a Commission of Enquiry into the operations of media to identify the best way forward. Phillip Edward Alexander This is an example of media functioning in an environment of accountability: The BBC “got it wrong” by not giving prominence to the massacre of the Fogel family by Palestinians in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, the outgoing director-general has admitted. Mark Thompson was quizzed by Conservative MP Louise Mensch, who made various complaints to the BBC about the coverage, at a Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee hearing on Tuesday. Mrs Mensch said the BBC’s decision not to include the story as part of its rolling news coverage generated “the most reaction I have ever had in all my time in politics.” She said: “The BBC ran the story on Radio 4 and a lead item on the website but they never subsequently touched it in broadcast or on the 24-hour rolling news programme on BBC News 24. I only found out, after the event, from an American blog, called “Dead Jews is no news” and the more I went into it, the more shocked I was.
Posted on: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 13:01:54 +0000
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