Showing posts with label Essentail Law. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Essentail Law. Show all posts

Friday, 27 May 2011

It's a private issue...

Photograph by eye dropper

While watching Question Time last night I got into the discussion of Injunctions and Privacy and, saying as for some reason my tweets failed to load I thought I would write a post all about my view on privacy and injunctions.

Injunctions and privacy laws in Britain were originally put in place to protect trade secrets and government information not to protects overpaid men who are supposed to be role models to aspiring footballers up and down the country.

Photograph by funkypancake

It is not just footballers who are trying to hide their extra marital activity - Andrew Marr took out an injunction to hide his love affair.

If public figures don't want their affairs splashed all over the front pages then perhaps they should learn to stay committed and work out any problems in their relationship rather than running to someone else.

Photograph by Sara Simmons

Before Ryan Giggs became front page news for his activities off the pitch, Imogen Thomas was portrayed as a home wrecker. Even though she should have known better, I don't feel that she should have been identified and forced to take the majority of abuse from the media when -as they say - it takes two to tango.

Although sex sells newspapers, I don't think anyone is bothered about who is sleeping with who - I personally feel that there are more important things happening in the world than a public figure who can't stay faithful.

I feel that privacy laws and injunctions should be applied to cases of blackmail, trade secrets and government information and that the men getting gagging orders out against the women they sleep with and the secret children they may or may not have should think about the consequences of their actions instead of paying thousands to cover up their dirty little secrets.

Friday, 20 May 2011

Time flies...

Then...

This is my last Friday as a teenager. Monday is my last day as a second year journalism student. I realise this post will make me sound really old but I remember being in Reception class - my dad (pictured above with me as a baby) stood at the back as I settled in to my first day. Here I am about to sit my NCTJ Essential Law and Court Reporting papers.

People have asked me so many times why I want to be a journalist. I always say that I have just always wanted to do it. Seeing my name in Print at the age of thirteen as a Young Reviewer for the Newcastle Evening Chronicle (the paper in the photograph above) made me determined to reach my dream.

On Monday I will be sitting my NCTJ Essential Law and Court Reporting exam papers so will be spending my birthday learning about contempt, defamation and the ethical considerations of the Journalist!For my third year at UCLan, I have picked to do the Magazine Route and I am very excited to say that I have two 2 week work placements arranged for either side of Christmas. My first two weeks will be at North East Lifestyle Magazine and the second two weeks I will be working at Accent Magazine.

I better get back to the revision and hope that the world doesn't end tomorrow as some are speculating so that all my revision doesn't go to waste!
...and now!