The Jewish Chronicle, a weekly newspaper that was saved from liquidation last year by a consortium led by a former senior adviser to Theresa May, has been exposed as having a quite astonishing record of journalistic failings.<\/p>\n
Over the past three years, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO), the misnamed and feeble \u201cpress regulator\u201d created by the\u00a0billionaire-owned corporate media, has found the paper to have breached its code of practice on at least 28 occasions. The weekly has also lost, or been forced to settle, at least four libel cases over the same period.<\/p>\n
According to Brian Cathcart, a professor of journalism at Kingston University in London, that means one in every four or five editions of the Chronicle has broken either the law or the IPSO code. He describes<\/a> that, rather generously, as a \u201ccollapse of journalistic standards\u201d at the paper.<\/p>\n IPSO, led by Lord Edward Faulks, a former Conservative minister, has repeatedly failed to launch any kind of formal investigation into this long-term pattern of rule and law-breaking by the Jewish Chronicle. He has also dragged his feet in responding to calls from a group of nine individuals maligned by the paper that IPSO urgently needs to carry out an inquiry into the paper\u2019s editorial standards.<\/p>\n We urge @IpsoNews<\/a> to launch a Standards Investigation into the Jewish Chronicle without delay. — Jo Bird (@JoBirdJoBird) August 3, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n
We have seen 28 recorded breaches of the Editors\u2019 Code and four libel defeats in just three years. @pressgazette<\/a> @journalism_news<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/BUdXIhXkAL<\/a><\/p>\n