Britain’s regulator of the printed press ruled this Saturday that a column by Opinion against Meghan Markle Posted last December by “The sun” which received more than 25,000 complaints, violate the journalistic codefor which the newspaper had to publish the verdict as punishment.
In his article, well-known presenter Jeremy Clarkson said he hated Prince Harry’s wife and “to dream of the day when she will march naked through the streets of every city in Britain while the crowd yells “shame!” and throws excrement at him”, among other things.
The member media’s self-funded Independent Press Standards Organization (IPSO) partially accepted the complaints of two feminist organizations and concluded that the article was sexist in its content “a pejorative and derogatory reference to the Duchess’ gender”.
However, the regulator, which has been condemned by the NUJ journalists’ union for a lack of independence, dismissed arguments from the Fawcett Society and the Wilde Foundation that this was the case “inaccurate, harassed the Duchess of Sussex and contained racial discrimination”.
Although the ruling sets a precedent for IPSO, the association Hacked Off against Abuses in the Tabloids criticizes it for not imposing a fine or disciplinary action on the newspaper’s director and the columnist known for his provocative comments.
In an unprecedented gesture, The Sun and Clarkson apologized back in December after receiving a spate of complaints, but so far IPSO, a self-regulatory organization that has garnered some headlines like The Guardian, The Guardian and Financial originate from Times”, which have their own complaint management mechanisms. EFE