Today we looked at investigative journalism, specifically in the area of miscarriages of justice (If a certain lager did morally upstanding journalism, this would be it.). This is a very relevant area for us a Winchester, with the innocence project being a fine example of investigative journalism into the miscarriages of justice: taking people who have been convicted and appealing on behalf of them if it seems that they have been wrongfully convicted.
More notable an example of evidence would be the M.P's expenses scandal that was exposed by The Daily Telegraph. The best defence for this form of journalism is having the evidence to prove it to be true in a court of law. However, besides this, the defence would be that the exposure was in the public interest, the three main components of a public interest defence are:
- Hypocrasy (meaning that the person is giving an image which is not true)
- Crime (the person or collective attacked are taking part in criminal activity)
- Public Safety (e.g. the council are putting heroin and cyanide in the water)
At this point in the lecture we drifted into the specifics of certain cases, which I am unsure is a topic befitting of this published blog, what with defamation of the police and legal system being a highly outcome.
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