Guardian Australia to remain out of Press Council, claims its internal regulation is ‘adequate’
The Guardian Australia has decided not to join print and online watchdog the Australian Press Council arguing that its own self regulation is “adequate and proportionate”.
The digital-only local operation, which launched in May 2013, had previously said it would not join the APC until it became “more established”. But Emily Wilson, editor of the Guardian Australia, has now told Mumbrella that she intends to remain outside the APC because she felt the masthead’s own internal processes were sufficient “for the time being”.
“In Australia, the Guardian is less than two years old and is digital only, and we are confident that its self regulation is adequate and proportionate for the time being,” said Wilson. “But we’re ruling nothing out for the future.”
The APC has previously indicated that it is open to the Guardian and other new overseas online players, such as the Daily Mail Australia, Buzzfeed and the Huffington Post, joining the industry-funded self regulatory body. None have yet done so.
They probably don’t want to be lectured about the images they can put on their home page.
Does anyone read it?
^ Wonka – more people read The Guardian online than the Daily Tele or The Australian
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The right wing press barrons have worked very hard to poo poo The Guardian. They make out as if Guardian readers are crazy nutjobs and use labels, such as; ‘loony lefties’, ‘economy wreckers’, ‘middle class do gooders’ and the like. Many, now ‘knee jerkers’, have been drip fed this lie, throughout their lives. Freedom of the internet enables citizens to be informed and browse a multitude of news sites and public forums to gauge the honest answers. (These days they are never far away.)
Thank goodness for The Guardian and their true jounalistic ambition. They put their readers first and truly care about society v the 1%. No doub’t either informed greedy, power hungry a45eholes or the ignorant, as ever, will be the ones to state otherwise.
Keep fighting the good fight all at The Guardian!