Nicola McLean, who has failed her driving test seven times and is currently wooing viewers across the nation on I’m A Celebrity, faces an unusual accusation of copyright infringement.
Click here to learn how the I’m a Celebrity star has roused the ire of Katie Price, aka Jordan. As Yahoo’s TV Editor, whoever he or she might be, puts it: “Model/actress/singer/sportswoman/entrepreneur Katie Price has had a pop at I’m a Celebrity glamour girl Nicola McLean. In the Mirror newspaper, Katie claims Nicola has been imitating her mannerisms and behaviour on the show.”
It gets worse, for as Ms Price says: “It’s like she’s been studying old re-runs of the series I was in, and mimicking my behaviour. It’s uncanny.”
One for m’learned friends, no doubt.
Pictured: illustrative image of Nicola McLean (copyright all newspapers) as she infringes other celebrities’ image rights. Said not one news editor: “It’s an outrage, and has to be stopped.”
[...] ‘Copy-cat’ Nicola in copyright controversy As Yahoo’s TV Editor, whoever he or she might be, puts it: “Model/actress/singer/sportswoman/entrepreneur Katie Price has had a pop at I’ma Celebrity glamour girl Nicola McLean. In the Mirror newspaper, Katie claims Nicola has been … [...]
[...] ‘Copy-cat’ Nicola in copyright controversy As Yahoo’s TV Editor, whoever he or she might be, puts it: “Model/actress/singer/sportswoman/entrepreneur Katie Price has had a pop at I’ma Celebrity glamour girl Nicola McLean. In the Mirror newspaper, Katie claims Nicola has been … [...]
[...] ‘Copy-cat’ Nicola in copyright controversy One for m’learned friends, no doubt. Pictured: illustrative image of Nicola McLean (copyright all newspapers) as she infringes other celebrities’ image rights. Said not one news editor: “It’s an outrage, and has to be stopped.” [...]
The headline says it all: ‘Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger takes pay cut‘.
Dan Sabbagh’s piece says a bit more: said editor ‘emailed staff at the newspaper to say that his salary in the upcoming 2012-13 financial year will be £395,010, compared with £438,900 in the current financial year’.
Some voices say: ‘How worthy.’
Others opine: ‘Well, he would, wouldn’t he?’
But we say: good work by Mr Rusbridger. For the sake of the media’s survival, we hope that others in senior positions in the industry will follow suit.
Image of toolkit allegedly deployed by Alan Rusbridger courtesy of Flickr user LollyKnit.
Curious times in the media; strange days at The Times.
Would ‘Dacre Cards‘ – the system of licensing journalists proposed by Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre – have prevented the embarrassment now palpable at the Times over the NightJack story?
Times editor James Harding’s evidence to the Leveson Inquiry seemed heartfelt and contrite, albeit that the paper’s former long-serving and much-respected lawyer, Alastair Brett, seems to have been, er, rather dropped in it. Clearly, mistakes were made with regard to NightJack by young reporter Patrick Foster who, once he had hacked into NightJack’s account and thus discovered his identity, then embarked on a quest to expose it via legitimate methods. This, as Inquiry counsel Robert Jay QC put it, was “rather like working from the inside of the maze out”.
But had Foster been licensed via a Dacre Card, would this unsavoury episode in the Times’s history have been avoided?
We suspect not. A raft of laws were in existence at precisely the time when many News of the World journalists seemed to believe that they were entitled to hack any phone they liked. Those laws forbade them from doing so, and yet made no difference. Aside from the obvious objection to them – that they will squeeze out freelancers and citizen journalists – Dacre Cards would simply amount to something to circumvent.
What is really required is an ethical shake-up, from top to bottom. Society generally – not just journalists – needs a sense that some things are just plain wrong.
Something remarkable happened today. Yes, the Supreme Court launched its Twitter feed. It even has a Twitter policy, one of caveats, disclaimers and little by way of illumination but regardless: who would have thought that the successor body to the House of Lords would stoop to engage with the world of tweets, hashtags and retweets?
We look forward to the day when court business will be conducted via Twitter. Meantime, check out this link for an excellent blog on the Supreme Court.
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Memo to would-be hacks: good writing is no longer a tool of your trade
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After a raft of phone-hacking admissions and allegations, we are no longer seen as the gruff but dependable watchdog. Neville Thurlbeck, formerly of the News of the World (part of his Damascene conversion; to be continued).