Ordering the Daily Express to print a front-page correction was a success for Ipso. But scaremongering over refugees is common throughout the world’s mediaDid you know that the English language is “starting to die out in British schools; indeed,that in some of them “English is barely heard at all”? reply yes whether you read a Daily Express front page “special investigation” that reported 311 different tongues apparently spoken in our classrooms. reply no whether you read final week’s Independent Press Standards Organisation verdict on the tale, which found it “inaccurate” and “completely unsupported” by the cited data. Commodious correction with front page presence enforced.
Good for Ipso, or you may say. At least the Voice of Desmond must fall silent for five minutes or so. But then put this finding in a wider,more dismaying context. “ Moving Stories” – a current report from the Ethical Journalism Network – sets media coverage of refugee crises and migrant flows in exactly that broader landscape and duly seeks many, rather obvious, and reforms: expertise,specific care, training, and access,increased resources. In sum, standard ethical answers to ethical dilemmas.
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Source: theguardian.com