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• Much of the coverage has been about the plan to send those who enter the UK without legal paperwork to Rwanda.
• We argue that the media ought to take note of this issue as it continues to cover the government’s Rwanda policy.
• To fulfil their obligations as public service broadcasters, the UK’s TV media outlets in particular should focus more on the policy, not the politics.

Party politics over scrutiny

• The vast majority – 72% of stories – discussed the bill in relation to Westminster party politics.
• Specifically, how it would affect politicians’ reputations and prospects in the next election.
• But while most of the news items we examined referenced these obligations, they did not include a robust scrutiny of the legislation.
• What he’s got is a battle in his own party too.”

Personality over policy

• These were largely to do with humanitarian concerns about treatment of child migrants and modern slavery victims.
• Broadcasters focused on how the Conservatives were determined to vote against these recommendations to “send a message” to the Lords.
• Groups like the UN Refugee Agency or the Refugee Council accounted for only 9% of the total sources in our sample.

What is the media’s responsibility?

• Our analysis suggests that broadcasters used this same logic when reporting on regular government activity outside of an election cycle.
• UK public service broadcasters have a responsibility to provide the public with accurate, impartial and informative reporting.

The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• BURLINGTON, Mass., Sept. 13, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ITV has partnered with Avid ® (Nasdaq: AVID) to deliver leading edge functionality in its news editing, storage and publishing systems for both ITV Regional News and ITV National News, through a new subscription deal.
• ITV produces its content for Nations and Regions, with ITN (part-owned by ITV) producing its National Network service.
• ITV News’ Director of Technology and Technical Operations Paul Stevenson explains, “We're delighted Avid is delivering a newsroom production system to meet the demands of our news production operation.
• We continue working with Avid to enable key functionalities for our fully integrated workflow across National and Regional ITV News.

• The sums involved aren’t huge, but the significance for local journalism in the UK should not be underestimated.
• So what is the Mill doing right and could it be a model for a new type of local journalism?
• When it first launched I invited Herrmann to talk to my journalism students about the project, then very much in its infancy.
• What started as a one-man operation is now a team of nine and it is advertising three new staff positions at the moment.

Change or die

• In the rush to digital and to find an alternative to advertising revenues and physical sales, local newspapers had to adapt or die.
• It also made a number of recommendations, including that online platforms should have a “news quality obligation” to improve trust in the news.
• Investment into companies such as The Mill could be the start of a new financial model for wider local journalism.
• It’s good news for people like me who believe in local journalism, however it is delivered.

• A provocative Channel 4 satirical programme, The British Miracle Meat, has led to hundreds of complaints to media regulator Ofcom.
• The show was inspired by Jonathan Swift’s satire A Modest Proposal (1726), in which the author of Gulliver’s Travels suggests poor Irish people sell their children for food.
• The Channel 4 show’s creators wanted to make viewers think about the effects of the cost of living crisis, as well as the future of food.

Repugnant markets

• Perhaps the most famous real-life example of a repugnant market is the French case of “dwarf-tossing” bans.
• There were no concerns about his safety – Wackenheim was using helmets and padded clothing.
• Underneath the initial shock about certain transactions, what people find repugnant in some markets seems to be what they reveal about poverty and the choices it forces people to make.
• But because they do not involve money directly changing hands, many people aren’t as immediately driven to call for action from the government.

The price of everything

• The same could be said for markets for pollution and environmental taxes, which put an explicit price on the right to pollute.
• The standard economic approach to fighting climate change is to put a price on carbon that corresponds to its social cost.
• Governments, businesses and individuals must then pay for the cost their pollution imposes on society.
• But the current price of carbon in the EU (around £80 per tonne of CO²) and in the UK (around £45/t) only applies to a small subset of industries.