European court of human rights attacks UK newspapers [Daily Mail]
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[quote]The European court of human rights has accused British newspapers, including the Daily Mail, of publishing "seriously misleading" reports.
A statement issued by the registrar of the court and emailed to reporters last Friday, says the court is "concerned about the frequent misrepresentation of its activities in the British media". The registrar, Erik Fribergh, is the court's senior staff lawyer.
This is thought to be the first time the registrar has responded formally to media reports, although the court did test the ground with a more low-key response a week earlier.
That came in the form of an email from the court's press service on 4 October telling journalists a report in the Mail a day earlier had been a "serious misrepresentation" of comments by the court's UK judge.[/quote]
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Source: [url]http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/oct/14/european-court-human-rights-attacks-uk-newspapers[/url]
I wonder if the tabloids will respond with running more dreary stories about how terrible the The European court of human right is and how we need to conveniently get out of it.
i kind of wish our tabloids just directly admitted to hating human rights rather than doing this convoluted song and dance around it where they only have problems with human rights because some immigrants who mostly don't exist somehow abuse the system to get away from nations that would most likely torture them horribly
Someone is going to say "Europe is strangling our press"
Whether it be here or in the Daily Mail.
[QUOTE=The mouse;42534110]---snip---[/QUOTE]
Um, you may want to snip the "inb4".
[QUOTE=The mouse;42534110]Someone is going to say "Europe is strangling our press"
Whether it be here or in the Daily Mail.[/QUOTE]
I think the headline will be something like "IS BRUSSELS TRYING TO MURDER FREE SPEECH?"
Daily Mail publishing misleading reports?
Now this I didn't expect..
[QUOTE=Bundy;42535463]Daily Mail publishing misleading reports?
Now this I didn't expect..[/QUOTE]
Well noone really officially calls them out on it.
[QUOTE=Murkrow;42535496]Well noone really officially calls them out on it.[/QUOTE]
Until recently. Party leaders, the MET office, and now even the fucking human rights court have called papers out lately. Hopefully something comes of this.
Aww man everyone at the Daily Mail's going to be so flustered.
Shamelessly quoting myself from another thread.
Daily Mail/Express/Sun uncovers the CHILLING TRUTH
* Ruthless Immigrant Humans Rights Court had been plotting it's vile attack on Britain for the past DECADE
* Authorities knew of the impending danger and did nothing to prevent it
* Experts suggest that the Human Rights courts actions were directly linked to video games
Do Human Rights Cause Cancer? More on page 11
These papers are the disgrace of journalism.
A bad consequence of the wonderful thing that is freedom of the press, we simply have to live with these papers and educate people on how to spot shit and misleading papers.
I am not sure why a political organ is making comments on newspapers at all, this will either have a indirect or direct effect, regardless of what it is they comment on; Be it good or bad. They should simply not be doing this.
[QUOTE=The fox;42536272]They should simply not be doing this.[/QUOTE]
You better be talking about the tabloid branding itself as a newspaper.
[QUOTE=Van-man;42536354]You better be talking about the tabloid branding itself as a newspaper.[/QUOTE]
Regardless, every nation should have free press, free from government pressure regardless of where it comes from. As such, they should not be commenting on this as a political and/or government organ.
If a tabloid or newspaper went out and posted a ton of positive things about a certain government/organisation, should that government/organisation say "Oh, hey, we definately support this paper, what they say is absolutely true" according to you? Regardless if said paper/tabloid is posting the truth or not?
A governing organ that is a part of a government, or a organisation that is a part of a government, should simply never comment on anything that is printed, regardless of whether it is in a respected newspaper, a tabloid, or someone sitting in their basement and printing their own newspaper/blog or whatever. They just shouldn't.
[QUOTE=The fox;42536365]Regardless, every nation should have free press, free from government pressure regardless of where it comes from. As such, they should not be commenting on this as a political and/or government organ.
If a tabloid or newspaper went out and posted a ton of positive things about a certain government/organisation, should that government/organisation say "Oh, hey, we definately support this paper, what they say is absolutely true" according to you? Regardless if said paper/tabloid is posting the truth or not?[/QUOTE]
The European court only says that the Daily Mail isn't being factual, it's written to be deliberately misleading.
[QUOTE=Mechanical43;42536407]The European court only says that the Daily Mail isn't being factual, it's written to be deliberately misleading.[/QUOTE]
Still, in my opinion, they should not comment on it. Had the opposite been happening, i.e they had been printing a lot of positive stories about them, would they have also stepped in and said "Hey, these guys aren't telling the truth"?
As far as I am concerned, no government organisation or suchlike should comment on a newspaper, tabloid or anything as such, regardless of what is printed or said.
EDIT:
[quote]This is thought to be the first time the registrar has responded formally to media reports, although the court did test the ground with a more low-key response a week earlier.[/quote] Formally to me meaning being authorized or at least backed up by a government organisation to respond, in this case to a newspaper and/or talboid posting about said government organisation, which in my opinion the government organisation should never do, regardless if it's a newspaper/tabloid/blogg or private citizen voicing it's opinions on said body.
[QUOTE=The fox;42536431]Still, in my opinion, they should not comment on it. Had the opposite been happening, i.e they had been printing a lot of positive stories about them, would they have also stepped in and said "Hey, these guys aren't telling the truth"? [/QUOTE]
So it's ok for, sometimes, the only news source that some people read to say flat out lie whenever they want, and that's ok because it's 'muh freedum'? Right. Ok.
[QUOTE=The fox;42536431]Still, in my opinion, they should not comment on it. Had the opposite been happening, i.e they had been printing a lot of positive stories about them, would they have also stepped in and said "Hey, these guys aren't telling the truth"?
As far as I am concerned, no government organisation or suchlike should comment on a newspaper, tabloid or anything as such, regardless of what is printed or said.
EDIT:
Formally to me meaning being authorized or at least backed up by a government organisation to respond, in this case to a newspaper and/or talboid posting about said government organisation, which in my opinion the government organisation should never do, regardless if it's a newspaper/tabloid/blogg or private citizen voicing it's opinions on said body.[/QUOTE]Why should they never comment on newspapers? They are not restricting their freedom of speech, just responding to their claims.
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