News and Politics | February 18, 2010 | 4 comments

Daily Mail's Stephen Gately article 'did not breach press code" says PCC

source: http://climateox.org/2010/02/18/the-row-over-jan-moirs-stephen-gately-column-timeline/

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The Press Complaints Commission has rejected a complaint made by Stephen Gately's partner about an opinion piece in the Daily Mail by journalist Jan Moir that described the events leading up to the singer's death as “sleazy” and “less than respectable”. Whatever the cause of death is, it is not, by any yardstick, a natural one,” she wrote.

The PCC received more than 25,000 complaints, a record number, after a number of Facebook and Twitter campaigns. Gately's civil partner, Andrew Cowles, said he was disgusted by the article and claimed the Daily Mail had broken the PCC's code of conduct on three grounds, arguing that it was inaccurate, intruded into private grief and contained homophobic remarks.

The code says that the press must avoid making pejorative references to a person's sexual orientation, but the commission, which has Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre as chairman of the Editors' Code of Practice Committee., said that Moir did not use any abusive or discriminatory language.

Two weeks ago Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian editor, said the credibility of the PCC was "clinging by its fingertips", and that recent investigations had been "embarrassing".

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4 comments // Daily Mail's Stephen Gately article 'did not breach press code" says PCC

  • Mcellie
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      Mcellie  

    • Papers like the Daily Mail tend to campaign against people/companies after being offended by something, video nasty era for example. It's annoying they've manged to brush this off, after it caused a large amount of offensive for people who read the article and for the friends and family. What she wrote was totally wrong and the timing made it more painful.

    • 1 year ago
  • ozoneocean
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      ozoneocean  

    • Idiots write for newspapers like that because they think their readers are all morons. It's funny that attitudes 80 years ago were WAY more homophobic than anything now, but even so no one then would've dreamed about writing in that derisory, derogatory, imbecilic way they do now in those idiot columns.

    • 1 year ago
  • sophosthegreat
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      sophosthegreat  

    • I think the ruling is shocking. How can they claim her opinion piece did not use discriminatory language when she referred to his lifestyle as abnormal. According to the PCC homophobia is ok, shameful.

    • 1 year ago
  • smurph25
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