Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF)
for diverse, democratic and accountable media
by OTJC news release Today's Times carried a front-page report saying that an official inquiry into the Battle at Orgreave is set to be announced. The report went on to say that the eventual format of the report “may disappoint campaigners who have called for a full public inquiry.” The detailed information in theTimes report, citing “Whitehall sources”, suggests it was … [Read more...]
After a campaign run by the media unions and others, the BBC has announced that its News Channel and World News will remain as separate channels. The news was welcomed by the NUJ who had argued that the two offered very different services and were important and popular in their own right. Tony Hall BBC director general told staff that the News Channel would not be closed or … [Read more...]
by CPBF news release The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) believes that the recommendations in today’s report by the Culture, Media and Sport Committee (CMS) on the BBC White Paper (.pdf) fail to point out the dangers in the Government's White Paper. The Report accepts that the BBC should be regulated by Ofcom (p.17). But by making Ofcom the regulator, … [Read more...]
by Barry White The failure of the coup launched by a faction of the military on 15 July has resulted in a massive purge by the Erdogan's government, while the reckless military adventurism has weakened, possibly fatally, what was left of the country's democratic framework. In addition it left more than 200 dead and over 1,500 injured, mostly civilians who went onto the … [Read more...]
by MRC News Release The online and television media showed “clear and consistent bias” against Jeremy Corbyn at the start of the Labour leadership coup, according to new research, which also accuses the BBC of giving twice as much airtime to Corbyn’s critics than to his supporters on some programmes during the crisis. The exclusive study from The Media Reform Coalition and … [Read more...]
The CPBF has produced a special report on its response to the recent Government White Paper on the current BBC Charter Review. It believes that the government’s plans for the BBC and public service broadcasting threaten that system and the whole ecology of British broadcasting. To read more download here. … [Read more...]
by Nick Jones Broadcasters, like print journalists, are rightly being challenged by leading figures on the Remain side for the news media’s failure during the EU Referendum campaign to exercise sufficient scrutiny over the claims being made by Leave supporters. Based on my 30 years as a BBC correspondent, from well before the 1975 referendum, I am in no doubt as to how … [Read more...]
The Inquiry chaired by Lord Puttnam and based in the Department of Media and Communications at Goldsmiths was set up in November 2015 to focus on the purposes of television in an era characterised by technological transformations, shifts in audience consumption habits, and changes in cultural and political attitudes. Its report, The Future for Public Service Television, … [Read more...]
ADRIAN DENNISBy Tim Gopsill The British press simply refuses to die. The more we are told that the newspapers have had their day, the more they seem to run the show. In all the confusion over the conflicting claims in the UK’s EU referendum, the only clear line was that the press was 4-1 for quitting. Voters said they didn’t have a clue what the real pros and cons might have been, so … [Read more...]
Registration from 9.30am. Diskus Centre, Unite the Union HQ, 128 Theobald's Road, London WC1X 8TN. Nearest station Holborn. Programme: 10.00am – 11.15 am, CPBF Annual General Meeting; presentation of reports 2015-16; election of National Council, discussion of future policy and activity. (CPBF Members only) 11.30am – 1.15pm Open discussion on campaigning for media reform … [Read more...]