As you read these words, does it make a difference if they are in print or online?
Yes, if you accept one conclusion of an official inquiry on the British press released last Thursday.
The report’s author, Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson, offers many recommendations on how to restore the integrity of British newspapers after recent scandals, which included hacking of personal cellphones, even one belonging to a deceased girl. His main proposals to Parliament are to pass a new law and use a government regulator to help hold newspapers to account for lapses of their own ethical codes.
While he is optimistic that traditional newspapers can be reformed ”“ although his peculiar solutions may be a slippery slope to censorship ”“ Sir Brian is strangely pessimistic that news consumers can ever trust much of what they read in the new digital media.
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CSM Editorial–An 'ethical vacuum' in Internet media?
As you read these words, does it make a difference if they are in print or online?
Yes, if you accept one conclusion of an official inquiry on the British press released last Thursday.
The report’s author, Lord Justice Sir Brian Leveson, offers many recommendations on how to restore the integrity of British newspapers after recent scandals, which included hacking of personal cellphones, even one belonging to a deceased girl. His main proposals to Parliament are to pass a new law and use a government regulator to help hold newspapers to account for lapses of their own ethical codes.
While he is optimistic that traditional newspapers can be reformed ”“ although his peculiar solutions may be a slippery slope to censorship ”“ Sir Brian is strangely pessimistic that news consumers can ever trust much of what they read in the new digital media.
Read it all.