The following is a press release issued by the Media Standards Trust. The full report on their website can be found here.
IPSO neither independent nor effective on behalf of the public, says first external analysis of documents
In the first detailed external assessment of the final IPSO documents, the Media Standards Trust finds that the proposed new regulator falls far short of fulfilling Leveson’s recommendations for an independent and effective self-regulator of the press.IPSO has claimed, in national newspaper advertisements, that it “will deliver all of the key elements Lord Justice Leveson called for in his report”. Yet this assessment shows that IPSO satisfies only 12 of the 38 recommendations for a self-regulator. It fails 20 – over half. It is unclear, based on the information currently available, whether it would satisfy the other 6 recommendations.Some of the recommendations IPSO does satisfy would represent considerable improvements to the current system of self-regulation, for instance:
Yet IPSO fails to deliver many of the most fundamental aspects of the Leveson system, most notably:
Based on this assessment, IPSO appears to repeat what Sir Brian Leveson described as a pattern of cosmetic reform, that has characterised press self-regulation for 70 years. It maintains many of the flaws of the old system, and in some cases institutionalizes them.‘Leveson said that any new system of press self-regulation had to work for the public as well as for the press’, Martin Moore, director of the MST said. ‘IPSO fails the public at the most basic level – it does not provide access to justice or independent regulation’.
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