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Warning labels for journalism

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Once more just redirecting you to someone else’s genius idea (or less honestly sharing a link), but the idea of warning labels for journalism is just too excellent not to share. Tom Scott has produced a set of warning labels for sticking onto news reports and has made them downloadable as a PDF for avery labels. As he puts it: “It seems a bit strange to me that the media carefully warn about and label any content that involves sex, violence or strong language — but there’s no similar labelling system for, say, sloppy journalism and other questionable content. I … Continue reading →

Three from the register

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For those of you that already read the tech news site The Register, sorry for drawing your attention to three rather interesting articles on there today. Following on from Anna Raccoon’s article on ASBO’s given to prostitutes/a> the register observes that the police normally object to people publishing details of suspects under investigation. One would assume that unless caught actually in the act by the police, or even then, that a decent lawyer would be able to weaken the value of any witness statements if the ladies concerned ever get taken to trial on the grounds of all the publicity … Continue reading →

You can’t trust a copper

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It’s true it seems you can’t trust a copper to actually know the law they’re meant to be enforcing. The Metropolitan police commissioner has admitted that his police sometimes forget the law on photography (not that it’s been a high profile issue or anything), and of course the plastic police have been found to delete photographs unlawfully. None of which of course is particularly news, and is hardly surprising given that the chief constables are ignoring the Home Secretary. But why should they worry about the law when the chances of any individual officer getting prosecuted for anything is so … Continue reading →