This article discusses the White House ban on several major broadcasters and newspapers from attending an informal press briefing. The BBC, CNN, the New York Times and others were excluded from an audience with the Press Secretary Sean Spicer without any reason being given. This ban came several hours after the President Donald Trump delivered another attack on the media where he states that "fake news" as the "enemy of the people", and it is no surprise he has reacted this way as he has previously singled out CNN and the New York Times for their criticism.
I believe that Trumps attack on the press is getting out of hand, and that there is no legitimate reason for Trump to bar certain media outlets for simply criticising decisions he makes.
This article discusses the calls for resignation of the Sun associate editor Kavanagh, from the board of press watchdog Ipso for making false claims about the number of asylum seekers lying about their age. Ipso said Kavanagh was inaccurate to claim that two out of three asylum seekers lied about their age. The press regulator have instead found that the figure in fact referred only to those who had been chosen to undergo an age assessment, and that the Sun should have made changes to the wording of the piece online to reflect the correct proportion.The Sun did publish a correction in print once it had been made aware of the error, but the watchdog said the tabloid had not taken sufficient action in terms of the the online version of the article. Some criticises Ipsos soft approach towards Kavanagh, Labour MP Paul Farrelly, who sits on the culture, media and and sport select committee, said the regulator should actually remove Kavanagh from its board "If they want to demonstrate that they are not under control of paymasters like the Sun and News UK they really should take steps towards making him resign".
I believe that journalists should be more wary of what the publish, as inaccuracies can have a significant impact on readers such as in this case provoking more hate crimes against asylum seekers. I also think that Labour MP Farelly does have a point in there being harsher steps to prevent journalists from manipulating statistics in their favour,
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