- IPSO hammers Jewish Chronicle for attacks on Labour supporter – and its conduct during investigation Archived Message
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on November 30, 2019, 8:45 am
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IPSO hammers Jewish Chronicle for attacks on Labour supporter – and its conduct during investigation 29/11/2019· by SKWAWKBOX IPSO’s heavily-critical report finds multiple breaches of code of conduct in attacks on Liverpool pensioner – and even finds publication failed to cooperate in regulator’s investigation The Jewish Chronicle has been heavily censured by press regulator IPSO for a series of attacks on a Labour-supporting pensioner in Liverpool published when the paper was claiming two former Liverpool MPs were being victimised. Audrey White complained to IPSO – usually considered a toothless regulator because it is run by the newspapers it regulates – about the Chronicle’s conduct and disregard for accuracy in a series of articles by Lee Harpin. IPSO’s judgment severely criticises the paper for repeatedly failing to ensure its claims about Ms White’s behaviour and her standing in the Labour Party – and for failing to correct inaccuracies even after they were identified. IPSO’s adjudication outlines the nature and seriousness of the Chronicle’s fake claims about Ms White: The articles reported that the complainant had been “expelled” from the Labour Party in the 1980s, by the then leadership. It said that she had then “lied” about her date of birth on her application to re-join the Party in 2015, “on the day Jeremy Corbyn became leader.” The articles also claimed that during the complainant’s local Constituency Labour Party (CLP) meeting, the complainant had been “amongst a group of militants who repeatedly interrupted” their MP while she delivered a speech. The articles also said that the complainant had “received a number of formal warnings from the Party over allegations of bullying against Party members “, and said that she had “falsely claimed that a Labour councillor was under investigation by the police for having ‘cruelly taunted’ a ‘disabled pensioner suffering from cancer’”. One article reported that the complainant had been a member of the Socialist Party. Ms White’s complaint that these claims were false was entirely upheld. IPSO stated, for example, that: the newspaper had not taken any additional steps to investigate or corroborate the source’s claim that the complainant had been “expelled” from the Labour Party in the 1980s, nor had it produced any evidence to support this easily verifiable claim. Similarly, it had produced no evidence that the complainant had, in fact, entered an incorrect date of birth in her application to re-join the Party in 2015 more... https://skwawkbox.org/2019/11/29/ipso-hammers-jewish-chronicle-for-attacks-on-labour-supporter-and-its-conduct-during-investigation/ |
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