Following the launch of the Media Standards Trust, up until the website relaunch in January 2008, the online debates asked topical questions about the news – its accuracy, fairness, context, sourcing and ethics. The questions were meant to provoke public debate about news standards – to draw attention to the good stuff and expose the bad.
The debates were designed to inform both current and future media practice. Our hope is they will become case studies that can be referenced when similar situations arise in the future. When discussing issues of privacy and public interest, for example, people can to refer back to the debate about the Mail on Sunday and Lord Browne. Debates are filed by subject area.
Most Recent Debate: Are things really that bad for British children?
1 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 1 Links
Most Recent Debate: Is media coverage giving rise to Islamophobia?
2 Debates | 2 Research Studies | 12 Links
Most Recent Debate: Genuine MMR concerns or irresponsible reporting?
3 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 2 Links
Most Recent Debate: Informing or Inflaming? The media and the crisis at Northern Rock
3 Debates | 1 Research Studies | 0 Links
Most Recent Debate: What real impact will Burma’s citizen journalists have?
2 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 4 Links
Most Recent Debate: How can the media tell people about climate change without being alarmist?
2 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 5 Links
Most Recent Debate: Journalists to blame, not PRs
12 Debates | 18 Research Studies | 9 Links
Most Recent Debate: EU Treaty: what really happened in Brussels?
1 Debates | 1 Research Studies | 1 Links
Most Recent Debate: The Orwell Prize 2008: Launch Debate
7 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 3 Links
Most Recent Debate: How should the media cover a massacre?
1 Debates | 1 Research Studies | 0 Links
Most Recent Debate: Are there any limits to reporting the private lives of the ‘fame generation’?
5 Debates | 1 Research Studies | 7 Links
Most Recent Debate: Who profits from leaks? The government, the media, the public, or no-one?
1 Debates | 0 Research Studies | 0 Links
Most Recent Debate: Should our armed forces be allowed to speak freely?
2 Debates | 1 Research Studies | 4 Links
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