Concerned about ethics in the media? Join the People's Republic of South Devon. Writers, artists, photographers wanted

By PRSD, on Wednesday, October 28, 2009

Every so often we call for contributors to the People’s Republic of South Devon, and there seems no better time to join a not-for-profit, ethical media company, what with the Daily Mail’s shenanigans with Question Time and Jan Moir, and even the South West’s editor of the Western Morning News has come for some stick.

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Nick

'Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!).'

Is that AA Gill coming over the hill with a rifle, ready for a Totnes shoot out. I think some will have to buy the Baboons their own Duck House for their own protection via the fees office!

Think I might just turn the oven on....

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Bill Bailey

While I agree with Nick that there can be some muddying of traditional right/left issues, surely there are some 'ethics' we can all agree on.

Doctoring images to twist the Question Time story (that would be the Daily Mail), or Jan Moir spewing hateful homophobia (Daily Mail again), or falsely accusing a police commander of being a bigamist (Daily Mail), or falsely claiming Oliver Twist beat up his ex-wife (Daily Mail)...

Even the matter of food critics shooting baboons seems pretty cut and dry (not the Daily Mail this time!).

I'd say it's not really a question of ‘if I say it is so, then I must be ethical' - it's more to do with aspiring to 'be better' and holding yourself to account.

Of course, Charles Foster Kane had exactly the same declaration of principles and look how that turned out!

Ethics tend to be a very muddy ground. Even if your bouncing both left and right or reading John Grey's Enlightenment's Wake. One of those cases where everybody thinks they are right and everybody else is wrong, as in PMQ's every week. In fact it has got to a point in both our politics and the media of all forms, where the only arguement tends to be - 'if I say it is so,' then I must be ethical. Therefore, where is one to go from here?