Once again you can see the vast difference between a
statutory regulator (BBFC is another example) and a (voluntary!!!)
self-regulator (IPSO). Leveson had proposed a tougher regulator with OfCom-like powers, but the
right-wing Tory government, generally favoured by most of the UK national press, unsurprisingly took the side of the press industry and refused to accept Leveson's tougher proposals or to allow the second phase of his inquiry. The
left-wing opposition party, Labour, support much tougher press regulation (under Tony Blair they became a right-wing party, favoured by some of the right-wing press, but this has radically changed under current leader Jeremy Corbyn, and they are once more a bogeyman figure for the press).
Would
the Editors' Code be so routinely flouted (
clause 1 is accuracy don't forget!!!) if there was a system of fines ... and/or
licensing (scrapped for newspapers back in 1694!) in place???
UK-based TV station fined for anti-Ahmadi Muslim hate speech.
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