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New British Libel Rules

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  • #2
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    As in line with the charter the poster is expected to make a comment; if the OP fails to do so in the next few hours this thread will be locked.

    I'd request that others do not start a conversation here until the OP does so him/herself


  • #3
    Dundalk Daily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭Dundalk Daily


    Apologies Master please forgive me.

    In my opinion the media have quite enough powers do they need anymore.


  • #4
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Dundalk Daily wrote:
    Apologies Master please forgive me.

    In my opinion the media have quite enough powers do they need anymore.

    That's ok.

    obviously this would only apply to British journalists, however it doesn't seem to be any different to the upcoming Irish libel rule which allows Irish journalists to evade a libel case if they can prove that they published with honest intent and with due reason, even if what they said turns out to be incorrect.
    No Western Government would allow their press the freedom American's have where they can say almost anything they like and get away with it.


  • #5
    lostexpectation
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,082 ✭✭✭lostexpectation


    they had tommy sheridan on question time last night and he didn't get too bad a time, that video must be a fake, but they were all saying they needed to maintain the free press, but the mistake is the the phrase free press is generally understood (and research by RWB) to mean freedom from government interference which is a must, and hopefully countries that don't have it will get more of that type of freedom, but...

    free press should also mean freedom from commercial intereference and monopoly and mr never been in a swingers club drinking champaing sheridan hypicrit pointed out, murdoch owns 42% of the press in the uk which is actually damaging press freedom, so the understanding of free press needs to changed...

    clive anderson said so you think murdoch is conspiraing against you from his office in NYC or whereever, 42%(+/-) is a conspiracy its a fact (http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/media/mediaown.html)
    its a daily reality, its a qualtiy of journalism, its an agenda, its sttrategy, tis market share etc.


    we maybe now we get free press, its time for free press.


  • #6
    Dundalk Daily
    Closed Accounts Posts: 583 ✭✭✭Dundalk Daily


    The standards of the Iirish media have gone down the swanny as a result of British media on the landscape here. Proof of this was the nasty onslaught on Steve Staunton and his family.


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  • #7
    flogen
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 10,247 Mod ✭✭✭✭flogen


    Dundalk Daily wrote:
    The standards of the Iirish media have gone down the swanny as a result of British media on the landscape here. Proof of this was the nasty onslaught on Steve Staunton and his family.

    I don't think you can blame the British media for that; they may have been working for a British publication but they were Irish journalists writing for an Irish audience.

    The fact is that the British libel laws have no bearing on us; once the material is available in Ireland and is considered libelous under our laws the opinion of the UK system doesn't matter, they can be taken to court in Ireland (even if the paper was written, produced and published in England)


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