Posts Tagged With: Media
Top Gear special prompts complaint from Indian High Commission
Letter to BBC expresses deep disappointment at tasteless jibes and breach of agreement over Jeremy Clarkson showThe Indian High Commission has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the “tasteless” antics of Jeremy Clarkson’s Top Gear Christmas sp… Continue reading
Richard Dawkins backs student society over Muhammad cartoon
UCL’s atheist society advised to take down Jesus and Mo cartoon posted on Facebook following complaintsSecularists including Richard Dawkins have rallied to support a university society which was advised to take down a cartoon image of Jesus and Muhamm… Continue reading
Daily Mail pays Neil Morrissey damages over false binge-drinking story
Article falsely claimed Men Behaving Badly actor was banned from French bar for ‘rowdy, drunken’ behaviourMen Behaving Badly actor Neil Morrissey has received an apology and “substantial” damages from the Daily Mail over an article that falsely claimed… Continue reading
Ofcom outlines 4G spectrum plans
Communications regulator Ofcom has revised its plans for the mobile 4G spectrum auction this year, removing guarantees for two networks and boosting rural coverageThe biggest auction of space on the British airwaves is to be held at the end of 2012, wh… Continue reading
Timeline: Mail on Sunday and private investigator Steve Whittamore
How events have unfolded in relationship between newspaper and private investigator• Mail on Sunday used investigator after he was charged, editor admits at Leveson inquiryFebruary 2003Steve Whittamore supplies Mail on Sunday with confidential DVLA i… Continue reading
Paul Dacre had hand in accusing Hugh Grant of smears, Leveson inquiry hears
Dacre was involved in drafting statement following Grant’s claim that Mail on Sunday could have hacked his phonePaul Dacre, the Associated Newspapers editor-in-chief, had a hand in the drafting of the Daily Mail publisher’s statement accusing Hugh Gran… Continue reading
Sherlock is cheeky entertainment, insists BBC after nudity complaints
Executives say they ‘thought very carefully’ about including images of naked dominatrix before the 9pm watershedBBC executives “thought very carefully” before including the pre-watershed nude scenes in Sherlock that drew around 100 complaints, but deci… Continue reading
Richard Hopkins: Strictly the best
The pioneering producer, who has died aged 47, made a big impact on reality TV and beyond – and his legacy lives onThe spring of 2005. A bunch of hapless Englishmen are in Los Angeles. None of us have pitched to US broadcasters before. We don’t know … Continue reading
Leveson inquiry: Peter Wright’s witness statement – full text
Mail on Sunday editor’s written evidence to the inquiry into media standards and phone hacking
Babar Ahmad ruling is a victory for freedom of expression | Joshua Rozenberg
Clarke shows none of the usual stubbornness by not seeking to appeal against the BBCThe justice secretary certainly acted unlawfully in refusing to allow the BBC to interview Babar Ahmad, a British prisoner wanted in the US on terrorism charges, as the… Continue reading »