Comments on: PCC rules on Jan Moir: a strange and troubling ruling.

By: PCC & Jan Moir: business as usual? « Enemies of Reason

PCC & Jan Moir: business as usual? « Enemies of Reason — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 12:20:07 +0000

[...] place. (Or at the very least, to look like it was established to do. You could say, looking at this article by Malcolm Coles for example, that the PCC appears in this instance to have made a rather bizarre decision, but we [...]

By: Was the PCC right over the Moir column? « Shane Croucher

Was the PCC right over the Moir column? « Shane Croucher — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:38:24 +0000

[...] sentiments, and choice of words and phrases in their adjudication are peculiar. Malcolm Coles highlights some over on his blog: PCC: “While many complainants considered that there was an underlying tone [...]

By: Karyn

Karyn — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:44:52 +0000

Not that surprising. Take a look at the latest complaint stats - they're on the PCC website. The ratio of lodged complaints to upheld complaints is... well, take a look.

By: Matthew Cain

Matthew Cain — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:20:05 +0000

I think the PCC made absolutely the right decision - based on the code and past precedent. But the body remains opaque and unaccountable and without reform, people are going to lose faith in the system of press self-regulation.

http://blog.matthewcain.co.uk/the-pcc-got-it-right-on-jan-moir-complaint/

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:47:05 +0000

Quite frankly, this couldn't have gone much better for Jan Moir. Now everyone knows her name (albeit for the wrong reasons) and she wasn't even given a slap on the wrists for her obviously inappropriate remarks.

This sets a great precedent for all other writers wanting a bit of instant publicity.

By: Gary McLachlan

Gary McLachlan — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:56:06 +0000

The whole tone was offensive - phrases like "he could barely carry a tune in a Louis Vuitton trunk" and "like a broken teacup in the rented cottage" are so obviously a linguistic swipe at homosexuals and Jan Moir's middle-class perception of the kinds of sex *all* gay men have. She claimed that she wasn't being deliberately offensive and her use of words was accidental or innocent - I'd say she's a lying cow who quite obviously chose the words she used to skirt the boundaries of manimum offence.