Jan Moir's Stephen Gately column shows papers should have an in-house watchdog

The PCC adjudication over the Jan Moir column about Stephen Gately highlights the need for a watchdog within newspapersThe Press Complaints Commission's decision not to uphold a complaint against the Daily Mail over its publication of Jan Moir's article about the death of Stephen Gately is now unsurprisingly the centre of heated controversy.The adjudication made the point, often overlooked, that one of the primary functions of the PCC, or any other self-regulatory system for the news media, is t...

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