Is there a place for a MySociey project to provide a mechanism/process for submitting queries to the new press regulator - whatever it ends up being called?
I'm speculating along the lines of a question-answer process along the lines of What Do They Know, which could perhaps include an initial query to the publisher - which may be a requirement before a complaint and they now all have Readers' Editors - followed by an escalation to the Regulator. It seems to me that an integrated, public, process, would be beneficial to everyone. The Royal Charter says, for example, in schedule 3 Section 11: "The Board should have the power (but not necessarily the duty) to hear complaints: a) from anyone personally and directly affected by the alleged breach of the standards code, or b) where there is an alleged breach of the code and there is public interest in the Board giving consideration to the complaint from a representative group affected by the alleged breach, or c) from a third party seeking to ensure accuracy of published information." Item c raises the possibility of a query raised everytime a columnist or article is written based on a fiction construed as fact, which happens dozens of times a week purely in our nationals. This is going to be a morass, and some transperency/openness would seem to me to be a good thing. Matt Wardman
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