Channel 4 takes unprecedented action after Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw were cleared amid claims of ‘shoddy journalism’Channel 4 has asked the broadcasting regulator,Ofcom, to investigate a cash-for-access sting on two former foreign secretaries after criticism over its reporting of the allegations. The parliamentary commissioner for standards cleared Sir Malcolm Rifkind and Jack Straw, and said the damage done to the former MPs could have been avoided whether Channel 4’s Dispatches and the Daily Telegraph had accurately reported the exchanges they had filmed.
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Source: theguardian.com