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Satisfaction Guaranteed?

Satisfaction Guaranteed? Press complaints procedures under scrutiny was launched at the Frontline Club on Tuesday 22 June 2004.

Edited by Rich Cookson & Mike Jempson
MediaWise, £15.00, ISBN 0-9547620-1-0

Contents

• Time to look again at the role of the press and its regulation
  MediaWise Chair Sir Louis Blom-Cooper calls for a fourth Royal Commission
• Memo to Meyer
  MediaWise Director Mike Jempson offers advice to the new PCC Chair
• Satisfaction Guaranteed?
  Rich Cookson investigates how complainants view the PCC
• A modern day Circumlocution Office?
  Professor Julian Petley has doubts about the PCC
• Making a meal of a myth
  Nick Medic exposes the PCC’s role in The Sun’s ‘Swan Bake’ saga
• Time for a culture change
  Mike Jempson perks up PCC procedures and the Code of Practice
• Consumer comforts?
  Tim Lezard reviews the way other complaints bodies operate
• Teething problems for Ofcom
  Wayne Powell & Ricky Nelson check out the new regulator
• Unhappy with Aunty
  Wayne Powell & Ricky Nelson examine self-regulation at the BBC
• Watching the watchdog
  Rich Cookson asks who is behind the PCC and how did they get there

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