British Media Coverage of the Press Reform Debate by Binakuromo Ogbebor

Author:Binakuromo Ogbebor
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030372651
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

In this article, the linguistic device of “you-centeredness” as described by Fairclough (1995, cited in Marston 2002, p. 86) was used to persuade the reader to see politicians, victims of press abuse and campaigners for such victims as their enemies. This interpretation runs contrary to Lord Justice Leveson’s claim (Leveson 2012, pp. 14–15) that his proposal of a statutorily backed press regulatory body would protect the members of the public from press abuse. As with Putnis’ (2000, pp. 106–110) analysis of newspaper coverage of the media policy debate in Australia, echoes from George Orwell’s 1984 were used to strengthen arguments against statutorily backed press regulation (e.g. see Beattie 2013). The Daily Express wrote:In practice, statutory regulation would mean government censorship. Our reading matter would be vetted by official bureaucrats, accountable not to the public but to the politicians, Whitehall and probably even the European courts. We would soon be sliding down the road towards Orwell’s Ministry of Truth, the sinister organisation that directed the press in the novel 1984. (McKinstry 2012, p. 14)

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