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Corbyn’s digital meh-nifesto is too rooted in the past to offer much for the...
While the Labour Party recently launched their Digital Democracy Manifesto with as much fanfare as they could muster, the reaction to it could be safely described in social media terms as “meh”. There...
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Does Theresa May really want an independent BBC? The jury’s out – Steven Barnett
There are two ways of looking at Theresa May’s decision to reverse Rona Fairhead’s appointment as BBC chair, thereby effectively dismissing her. The first is benign, reflecting a genuine impatience...
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The relentless humiliation of IPSO and Sir Alan Moses – Brian Cathcart
The big national newspapers are on the warpath again about regulation, desperately promoting the supposed virtues of their pet regulator, IPSO, and warning hysterically that any alternative means the...
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Liability and responsibility: new challenges for Internet intermediaries –...
How might policy-makers address demands for removal or policing of Internet content? Starting in the spring of 2016, a suite of proposals has emerged from the European Commission regarding Internet...
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Case Law: Privacy International v Secretary of State for Foreign and...
On 17 October 2016, the investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) delivered its judgment in the case Privacy International v. Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs et al. The skeleton...
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News: Supreme Court gives permission to appeal in Mirror phone hacking costs...
On 26 October 2016, the Supreme Court (Lords Mance, Reed and Toulson) gave Mirror Group Newspapers permission to appeal against a decision of Mann J on costs and CFAs. This is a “leapfrog” appeal...
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Enemies of the people: MPs and press gang up on the constitution over High...
Some of the reaction to the Article 50 judgment in the High Court is frankly frightening. Do pro-Brexit politicians and journalists attach any value at all to what we call the “rule of law” or the...
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Hacked Off: The Government’s Consultation on the Press: Amber Rudd and Karen...
Home Secretary Amber Rudd and Culture Secretary Karen Bradley have launched a public consultation on the press, but in flagrant breach of the spirit of honest consultation they are twisting the truth...
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Why the media got it so wrong on Trump and Brexit – Richard Sambrook
In the aftermath of Donald Trump’s election, the US media has embarked on a flurry of self recrimination. Much of what they discuss applies equally to the UK media and the problems with news coverage...
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How the UK passed the most invasive surveillance law in democratic history –...
You might not have noticed thanks to world events, but the UK parliament recently approved the government’s so-called Snooper’s Charter and it will soon become law. This nickname for the Investigatory...
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Implementing Leveson: “FreeThePress” another dishonest anti-Leveson campaign...
The corporate press has, in recent weeks, been heavily promoting an anti-Leveson campaign called “FreeThePress”. This is described by the News Media Association as a group of “Free speech campaigners...
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Where press regulation is concerned, we’re already being fed ‘post-truth’...
The Times newspaper greeted the start of 2017 by warning: “The freedom of the press is under direct and immediate threat.” Its Murdoch stablemate, The Sun, went further by identifying the “sinister...
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Catalogue of Cyberleagle’s Posts on Government Surveillance, 2013-2016
For over two years Cyberleagle has been blogging on surveillance, a topic that cuckoo-like has grown to crowd out most other IT and internet law topics on the blog. With the Investigatory Powers Act...
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Media Reform Coalition: Murdoch’s lobbying efforts are increasing, new...
Analysis by Media Reform Coalition and 38 Degrees suggests that Murdoch’s lobbying of government intensified ahead of the recent government consultation on the Leveson Inquiry and the announcement by...
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Murdoch’s access to British prime minister shows media power still in hands...
In 1996, when the web was in its infancy, the American technology writer Nicholas Negroponte predicted that the coming digital revolution would facilitate a “cottage industry of information and...
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Richard Nixon’s authoritarian loathing of the media lives on in Donald Trump...
When things go wrong for the president, his administration in crisis mode and his approval rating down to a weekly average of 41%, he turns to the press, anger in his eyes. He pleads, cajoles, or...
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Trump’s FCC continues to redefine the public interest as business interests –...
The U.S. Senate voted last week to allow internet service providers to sell data about their customers’ online activities to advertisers. The House of Representatives agreed on Tuesday; President Trump...
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Three questions about the media that politicians must be asked – Brian Cathcart
There is near-silence about the future of the media in this election, yet the winners must take momentous decisions about broadcasting and the press. It’s time journalists asked party leaders where...
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New data-driven analysis of how the UK media covered the EU Referendum campaign
A new study from the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power, based at the Policy Institute at King’s College London, analyses UK media coverage of last year’s Brexit campaign. Among the...
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Breaking the election silence: cross-border reporting of election day polls –...
Last week, as French voters went to the polls to choose their new president, the usual 32-hour period of enforced electoral silence fell throughout the Republic. In France, just as in the UK,...
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