Weekend won’t be found screaming at you from the crowded shelving of your local newsagent or supermarket. It’s title subtle and small goes against the claim, “the title is always written in large letters” suggested by McLoughlin (The L of M p6). No! it is waiting to be discovered in it’s protective cover, immersed in the numerous folds of the Guardian’s Saturday sections. A supplement you might ask, yes, but an award winning supplement and supplement, I believe in name alone. There can be no magazine snobbery when Weekend can give you an exclusive on Edward Snowden. There’s no need for a garish front cover when you have award winning writer Luke Harding’s, ‘The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man.’ What can be more legal or ethical challenging than running a story on national secrets provided by a whistleblower. Then when under threat of being closed down for refusing to hand over the documents by the Government, you destroy them in front of national security agents. After all integrity must be preserved as Goodman states, “If one journalist betrays a source others will be less willing to come forward” (Harcup J,P&P p22)
Now stories like that do not come along every day, but …show more content…
Unethical phone hacking by journalists eventually brought about the closure of The News of the World and the demise of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Harcup states it was in fact it the “Dogged investigative journalism of Nick Davis at the Guardian that shamed the authorities in to finally taking the issues seriously” (JP&P Tony Harcup p208). So having helped to take down the PCC it seems strange that the Guardian Media Group have as yet to sign up to its replacement the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The group believing they do not wish to sign up to a still flawed regulator it feels is just not independent enough, it does however, adhere to the editors’ code of
Now stories like that do not come along every day, but …show more content…
Unethical phone hacking by journalists eventually brought about the closure of The News of the World and the demise of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC). Harcup states it was in fact it the “Dogged investigative journalism of Nick Davis at the Guardian that shamed the authorities in to finally taking the issues seriously” (JP&P Tony Harcup p208). So having helped to take down the PCC it seems strange that the Guardian Media Group have as yet to sign up to its replacement the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO). The group believing they do not wish to sign up to a still flawed regulator it feels is just not independent enough, it does however, adhere to the editors’ code of