Media Standards Trust » Hacked Off. In the summer of 2. Hacked Off became independent of the Media Standards Trust. It is now a non- profit company, based on Victoria Street, London. The director is Professor Brian Cathcart. For further information, go to http: //hackinginquiry.
Hacked Off was originally founded to campaign for a public inquiry into illegal information- gathering by the press and into related matters including the conduct of the police, politicians and mobile phone companies. Only a full public inquiry, Hacked Off argued, could put the truth of the hacking scandal before the public and ensure that necessary lessons were learned. Following the Milly Dowler revelations on 4 July 2. Leveson Inquiry into the Culture, Practice and Ethics of the Press. Hacked Off covered every day of the Inquiry from the Royal Courts of Justice, commented on it, and contributed evidence to it. The campaign is now focused on pressing for substantial reform of press regulation. The new non- profit company, ‘The Hacked Off Campaign’ was established on 1.
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The truth about Hacked Off's media coup Several weeks after the disappearance of Madeleine Mc. Cann, one cynical journalist paid tribute to her parents’ “great skill” in managing the press. To an extraordinary extent, this story has been managed by its central characters,” he said. Alastair Campbell may be nowhere about but this is, if not spin, then highly sophisticated news management.” A short time later, this same journalist penned a nuanced defence of the media’s right to get things wrong. The idea that people must always get their facts right, like almost everything that is labelled common sense, is incomplete and unsatisfactory,” he argued. Life is more complicated than that . . . In a fast- moving business, readers and lawyers “have to understand that you can’t hang around until every detail is perfect.” In the few years since he wrote those words, life for Brian Cathcart has become a lot more black- and- white.
In his new role as director of the Hacked Off campaign for a controlled press, he now claims that “most British national newspapers ruthlessly chose to exercise their great power for evil”. Press inaccuracy has become a disease curable only by a state- backed regulator, and the Mc. Cann case is Exhibit A in what Hacked Off calls the “atrocities” perpetrated by the press.
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A whole industry has been roundly condemned by an official public inquiry,” Cathcart proclaims. Lord Justice Leveson in fact said that he was “able to state with confidence that the majority of press practice is good, if not very good.. Broadly speaking, stories are accurate, informative, well- written and respectful of the rights and interests of others.” Cathcart may not approve of tabloid journalists, but he certainly knows how to behave like one.
Who are Hacked Off? And how did Brian Cathcart and a small group of even more obscure allies come from nowhere to write perhaps the most important constitutional change yet of the 2. The royal charter which has just ended 3. Hacked Off”. The even more controversial “statutory underpinning,” with its coercive damages and fines, was, as they boast, “a measure suggested by Hacked Off’s chairman”.
The bragging is, if anything, underplayed: Lord Justice Leveson all but cut and pasted their suggestions into his report and the Government has adopted them with relatively few changes. Hacked Off did it by using all the red- top tricks they claim to hate – broad- brush condemnations, simplistic arguments, distorted facts, behind- the- scenes political deal making, celebrity stardust and the emotive deployment of victims. Their key skill was in presenting the crimes of some newspapers as the responsibility of all, and defining the issue as what Gerry Mc.
Cann, on the Hacked Off website, called “a binary choice: the newspaper barons or the people they abused in search of profit. It is as simple as that.” It is of course nothing like as simple as that. But though Hacked Off acts in the name of victims of the press, victims are not its central concern. Unknown to most of the people it lobbies, Hacked Off is a campaign not just to tame the press, but to claim the country for the authoritarian Left. It does want to stop newspapers victimising individuals.
But it also wants to force the press to serve defined social and political objectives – at the expense, if necessary, of the right to free expression. As its key intellectual inspiration, Prof James Curran of Goldsmiths College, put it: “The problem is that the press was the principal cheerleader of the deregulatory politics that landed us in the economic mess we’re in.
Our concerns should be confined not only to individual abuses, but to media moguls who distort the national conversation.” Curran was speaking at a meeting on May 1. Hacked Off and a fascinating body he co- founded, the Co- ordinating Committee for Media Reform. CCMR, which has received virtually no publicity in the mainstream media, is closely intertwined with Hacked Off, sharing key personnel. Prof Natalie Fenton, another Goldsmiths academic and a key member of CCMR, is a director of Hacked Off. She co- chaired the meeting with Cathcart and is seen on the platform at most of Hacked Off’s events. Writing on the “New Left Project” website, Fenton attacked the “excessively liberalised press” and the “naive pluralism” of “assuming that the more news we have, the more democratic our societies are”.
Curran, whose major book on the media is described as “the Bible” by Brian Cathcart, dismisses any regulatory model based simply on the “social worker mediation of individual grievances” – a sign, perhaps, of where victims really lie in his priorities. He attacks what he calls the “First Amendment fundamentalism” of British newspapers, saying they should have “an obligation to serve the public good” and that discussion of media reform “should not be limited only to defending freedom of expression”. Another Hacked Off supporter, Prof Chris Frost, says: “The right to free expression… cannot be absolute… the key is to allow as much freedom as is concomitant with the rights of others balanced by the public interest.” Frost wants newspapers to be forced to reflect “a fair selection of the day’s events”; a regulator, in other words, would decide what stories they covered.
At the May 1. 7 event, numerous Left- wing speakers outlined their view of how the “public good” or the “public interest” as defined by a press regulator, should override freedom of expression. Jacqui Davis, from Keep our NHS Public, said the media should be obliged to “stand up for the NHS”. Jacqui Hunt, from Equality Now, called for the regulator to ban Page 3, impose compulsory training for male journalists and require all reports on domestic violence to be “sensitive”. Other groups described as “partner organisations” by Hacked Off’s website include the newly- established Youth Media Agency, which complained that the media’s “discriminatory” coverage of the August 2. Trans Media Watch, which condemns newspapers for “stigmatising” transsexuals. Alleged examples of discrimination, which Trans Media Watch wants to ban, included a reference to the Bois de Boulogne, a park in Paris, as “containing transsexual prostitutes”.
Another Hacked Off “partner” is Engage, an “anti- discrimination” group including Islamist sympathisers and whose staff have justified the killing of British soldiers. Engage was exposed by The Sunday Telegraph, in what it would no doubt protest to a regulator was “discriminatory” reporting.
Tim Luckhurst, professor of journalism at the University of Kent and a supporter of the rival Free Speech Network, funded by newspaper publishers, says: “It is not the job of the press to 'support’ or 'oppose’ the NHS, but to scrutinise it. Hacked Off criticise the press for not representing a variety of viewpoints, but that is precisely what they despise about it. Leveson has been persuaded to embrace unquestioningly a profoundly ideological description of the relationship between the British press and democracy, previously held only by a small group of Left- of- centre academics.” Hacked Off’s staff does contain at least two token Conservatives – its spokesman, David Hass, is a former adviser to the then justice secretary, Ken Clarke, and its head of campaigns, Ella Mason, was a Tory aide at the 2. But a briefing memo, written by Mason and leaked to a newspaper last week, makes clear the campaign despises those Tories it has successfully used, saying: “These are likely to be people you intuitively distrust, dislike and despair of.
If they are what we need to win, however, we must understand their value and not confuse their values with our intentions.” Most of the organisation’s staff and those credited on its website are firmly of the Left. John Dickinson- Lilley, its parliamentary affairs officer, is a former Labour adviser. Julianne Marriott, who handles government relations, is a member of the Labour Party and director of Don’t Judge My Family, a campaign against the marriage tax allowance. Hacked Off’s public contact person, Francine Hoenderkamp, is news editor of the “UK Feminista” website, “organiser of the Orgasmotron live music night” and the coordinator of the Turn Your Back on Page 3 campaign. Jessica Riches, its web coordinator, is a former star of the campus Occupy movement. Cathcart himself is a fervent enthusiast for a united Europe who has described sterling as “nothing to be proud of”. Two powerful lobbying companies with close links to the Labour Party have also supported Hacked Off.
They are Sovereign Strategy, a controversial firm run by Labour’s former leader in the European Parliament and repeatedly exposed for alleged unethical dealings by the press, and BBM, run by two of Tony Blair’s former campaign staff. Hacked Off sits at the centre of a network of broadly Left- liberal groups who have been campaigning for many years for media regulation but whose efforts were given a massive boost by the hacking scandal. It grew out of the Media Standards Trust, which as early as 2. Press Complaints Commission (PCC) unfit for purpose – claiming, without much evidence, that its “ineffectiveness” had reduced trust in the media. In fact, MORI, which has polled on the question every year since 1. The Media Standards Trust’s director, Martin Moore, is also a director of Hacked Off.
The Media Standards Trust has also shared core funders and directors with Full Fact, a purportedly independent fact- checking website into the press and frequent complainant to the PCC, several of whose factchecks contain subtle Left- wing bias and whose complaints to the PCC are almost entirely against Right- wing newspapers. Full Fact’s chief executive, Will Moy, is also a director of Hacked Off. In 2. 01. 0 Full Fact was refused charitable status by the Charity Commission on the grounds, according to Moy, that it did not meet “rigorous standards of objectivity and independence”.