Politicians Need To Do More To Protect Children and Young People From The Press
A group of young people from Haringey created their own local project Positive Youth News Haringey to tackle the negative representation of youth in the media.
Media Integrity
Do the Daily Express fix their polls or something?
Here is an example…
The Royal Baby – media round-up
Across the nations this morning many people will be celebrating the birth of a future monarch – the as yet unnamed baby Cambridge.
What evidence is there that porn actually causes harm?
Much of the reaction to David Cameron’s announcement today that every household in the UK is to have pornography blocked unless they choose to receive it has looked at how ‘workable’ the policy might be in practice.
Is the Huffington Post branching out into sexist upskirt shots?
Wimbledon is supposed to be about decorum and propriety. And yet it seems that much of the respect that is automatically conferred upon the male tennis fraternity does not extend to women.
Daily Mail columnist says Rihanna’s fashion sense ‘invites rape’
We’ve already written about the Daily Mail once today. But woe betide me for not expecting to find two items to pull them up on in a single day.
This time it’s a tad more serious, however. In a spiteful article about Rihanna, Mail columnist Liz Jones writes that the pop star is a “toxic role model” for young fans because she glories in “drugs, guns and sleaze”.
The Daily Mail makes money from graphic video…after boasting that it forced Google to remove graphic videos
Do readers of a national newspaper really need to see a video of a women being killed by a shopping trolley? Sure, report the story if you must, but accompanying the piece with an enticing call to “scroll down for the video”?
The problem with No More Page 3: Right on authoritarianism is still authoritarianism
As much as I dislike lots of the things the Sun newspaper does in the name of journalism, and as much as I generally like Caroline Lucas, something about Ms Lucas wearing a ‘No More Page 3’ t-shirt in the House of Commons yesterday irked me.
Everyone should know who owns the press – for the sake of our democracy
Everyone agrees that newspapers play a crucial role in British democracy, even if they disagree what that role is.
Speed cameras save 800 lives a year. The Daily Mail still doesn’t care
An investigation by the RAC has found that on average deaths and serious injuries were down by a quarter in sites where speed cameras were located.