A Press Free and Responsible: Self-Regulation and the Press Complaints Commission, 1991-2001

by Richard Shannon

When the Press Complaints Commission was set up in 1991, British journalism was at an all-time low. In a democracy the media must be free but competition between tabloids had produced a press notorious for intrusiveness, tastelessness, inaccuracy, callous methods and chequebook journalism. The only curb was the old Press Council, funded by the industry itself and widely seen as a watchdog with false teeth. Some more forceful body was clearly needed;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719563216
• ISBN13: 9780719563218
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: John Murray Publishers
• Length: 392 Pages