Telegraph lashes Press Council and journo after ruling it breached code with Slipper coverage
The Telegraph’s exclusive revealing the allegations.
Sydney tabloid The Daily Telegraph has been held in breach by the Australian Press Council (APC) code over its coverage of the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Peter Slipper and allegations of sexual harassment against a staffer, which were later thrown out of court.
The APC ruling, published today, upheld a complaint by freelance journalist Margo Kingston that a report on page 17 of the paper on December 13, 2012 did not give sufficient prominence to a Federal Court decision to dismiss allegations Slipper had harassed a then member of his staff James Ashby.
The decision compared the front page treatment of Slipper when the allegations were first aired in April 2012 with the later treatment which saw the Telegraph publish in the words of the APC: “A very much less prominent report of the dismissal on page 17 of an edition eight months later.”
Margo Kingston is spot on.
It was a disgraceful campaign by The Terrorist and its owners News Corpse.
A joke newspaper read by the dumbest people in our society.
Being a Daily Telegraph should preclude you from being allowed to vote (or operate any sort of machinery.)
The famous News glass jaw in evidence yet again..
They can dish it out but they can’t take it….
They’re not so worried about ‘principles of free speech’ when it comes to their mate Morrison.
Incredible. News Corp CANNOT handle criticism. The only tool the public has at its disposal is the toothless Press Council, and even that’s too much for Tele editor Paul Whittaker. Man up
This from the same privateers who cry foul at the ABC’s alleged unbalanced coverage and want them gagged for showing up Uncle Rupert’s dancing bear Abbott. Obviously denial ain’t just that blue line on a map of Egypt.
As stated by a previous poster the Tele is read by our lowest IQ as well as the mentally unhinged, and its writing is at a year 9 reading level. Unfortunately for us all there seems to be an ever growing number that fit into this category.
“Ruling and insult to press freedoms”???
The ruling is an insult to blatant politically biased editorialising. The only insult is to the readers of newspapers, and those who believe that the media should be a force for democracy by providing objective information and commentary. So clearly backing one side is an abrogation of all journalism stands for.