3. PCC (press complaints commission)
• What is it?
• An independent body which administers the
press; including magazines and newspapers
• Can also assist individuals by showing their
interests to other authors/editors
4. • The PCC acts by:
• “negotiating remedial action and amicable settlements for
complainants;
• issuing rulings on complaints;
• using published rulings as a means of guiding newsroom practice
across the industry;
• publicly censuring editors for breaches of the Code;
• passing on pre-publication concerns to editors to prevent the Code
being breached;
• passing on requests to editors that their journalists cease
contacting individuals, and so prevent media harassment;
• issuing formal guidance, based on its interpretation of the Code, to
the industry on important issues;
• instigating its own investigations under the Code in the public
interest where appropriate;
• conducting training seminars for working journalists and editors;
• and liaising with other press councils internationally.”
5. Accuracy
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One of the 16 rules is accuracy – ‘the press must take care not to publish inaccurate,
misleading or distorted information, including pictures’
One example of this is at the moment in the news, Lady Gaga has complained to Glamour
magazine that they have made her look ‘too perfect’ as they have photo shopped her so
much that it doesn’t even look like her.
Glamour magazine would have done this
because they want there audience to think
that women should be ‘flawless’ and ‘skinny’
as they have edited her face so much she has
no flaws. Also they have made her waist so
skinny that it is barely there!
This might make some women feel that they
are not good enough but as Lady Gaga quotes
she urged women to 'fight back against the
forces that make them feel like they're not
beautiful'.
6. Discrimination
• Another one of the 16 rules is ‘discrimination’
• ‘The press must avoid prejudicial or pejorative reference to an individual's
race, colour, religion, gender, sexual orientation or to any physical or
mental illness or disability.’
• ‘Details of an individual's race, colour, religion, sexual orientation, physical
or mental illness or disability must be avoided unless genuinely relevant to
the story.’
• In my magazine, to avoid discrimination of ‘wholesome white girls’, I will
used a model in my magazine that is not ‘wholesome white’ and an idea
that I have in mind, is for the boy band, one of them will be white and the
other will be dark skinned.
