The Times, IPSO, and the mystery of the systematic breaches sanction

摘要

In June, Brian Cathcart and Paddy French published a report~1 which accused Andrew Norfolk and The Times of an anti-Muslim bias in its reporting. They mention three articles specifically. Of these, two resulted in complaints to IPSO, both of which were upheld. In the first, Tower Hamlets v The Times,~2 the newspaper was 'ordered' to publish a summary of the adjudication. In the second, Just Yorkshire v The Times,~3 IPSO was satisfied that a correction to the online version of the article and a notification in the Corrections and Clarifications column was sufficient to remedy the breach of the code. As Cathcart and French note, IPSO's responses in both cases was fairly tame, but not unusually so.