Daily Express, Daily Star & Private Eye face advertising ban
A proposed reform of the Press Complaints Commission could lead to titles which employ statutory regulation, such as the Daily Express, Daily Star and Private Eye, being banned from taking advertising or using Press Association news services.
The proposal, tabled by Telegraph Media Group chairman lord Black, would require “major advertisers” and government to confirm that publications had signed up to a beefed up PCC, or forfeit their spending.
Black, who chairs the Press Standards Board of Finance, has already spoken to the Incorporated Society of British Advertisers about his plans to see how such a scheme might be implemented.
ISBA spokesman Ian Twinn reacted sceptically to the plan, saying: “They would say yippee, cheap advertising. It is a marketplace.”
Black also proposes strangling non–PCC compliant titles by barring them from accessing PA wires and is “undertaking a study” to see how such a move might be possible.