Rarely does anyone, let alone the corporate media hold them to their own code of conduct.
Too often the corporate media looks the other way or merely pays lip service.
Thankfully the corporate media is now shrinking with the independent alternative media rising up to the challenge of replacing them as the ‘nemesis’ of the abusers of power.
The seven principles as listed are:
1. Selflessness
Holders of public office should act solely in terms of the public interest.
2. Integrity
Holders of public office must avoid placing themselves under any obligation to people or organisations that might try inappropriately to influence them in their work. They should not act or take decisions in order to gain financial or other material benefits for themselves, their family, or their friends. They must declare and resolve any interests and relationships.
3. Objectivity
Holders of public office must act and take decisions impartially, fairly and on merit, using the best evidence and without discrimination or bias.
4. Accountability
Holders of public office are accountable to the public for their decisions and actions and must submit themselves to the scrutiny necessary to ensure this.
5. Openness
Holders of public office should act and take decisions in an open and transparent manner. Information should not be withheld from the public unless there are clear and lawful reasons for so doing.
6. Honesty
Holders of public office should be truthful.
7. Leadership
Holders of public office should exhibit these principles in their own behaviour. They should actively promote and robustly support the principles and be willing to challenge poor behaviour wherever it occurs.
For further information on the 7 principles and the work of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, visit the Committee’s website and blogsite.
We thought we would test Dorset Eye’s credentials as an independent media discrete from the iron fist of the state propaganda regime with some examples of where Dorset Eye has helped in revealing the abuse of these principles. We have had to restrict it to two for each as unlike cats we only have one life.
Selflessness:
Following the Health & Social Care Act of 2012 in which the capacity of the private sector to run… the NHS was significantly increased. This from the year after:
333 donations from private healthcare sources totalling £8.3 million gifted to the Tories
Cash for Conservatives Exposes the HSBC Dirty Money running the Tory Party
Integrity
The real reason why Tories won’t stop arms sales to the Saudis
Disgusted at Tories Cheering The Continued Stagnation Of Emergency Services Incomes?
Objectivity
The Tory government regularly recruit from the BBC and ITV. Say no more
Accountability
Grenfell Survivors Tell Tories ‘The Dead Don’t Want You’
Dominic Raab ‘too scared to answer questions’ on government Covidshambles
Openness
Look who’s bankrolling the Tories folks!
Sound logic and empirical evidence are up against some powerful enemies
Honesty
This was probably the easiest in a very close field. Being honest is akin to climbing Everest in roller skates for this government and many of its predecessors. Any number of submissions could have been chosen but the two we chose are:
Strap yourselves in folks, one of the political stories of the century is brewing…
Government’s testing target boast is a lie. Here is why
Leadership:
DON’T BE GULLIBLE: IT’S THE TERRORIST SYMPATHISING TORIES THAT OFFER WEAK, UNSTABLE LEADERSHIP
OUR PRIME MINISTER LADIES & GENTLEMEN
Just some of the examples of which there are numerous. Check us out daily and we will bring you evidence of how all or some of the seven principles have been ignored or eviscerated.
Why then very little or no mention by the right wing corporate media as to how, why, when, where and who in government is not taking them seriously ?
Perhaps that same media are also up to their forelocks in ensuring that the most inept, incompetent and untruthful government in recorded history maintain the capacity to disregard the seven principles as laid out.
Daily Mail officially becomes Tory propaganda rag
Thatcher’s election victories owe everything to Rupert Murdoch and his poodles at The Sun
Aaron Bastani nails the Sun, Mail, Express and Telegraph
Whatever the reason… it is only the alternative independent media who have as their raison d’etre to expose the hypocrisy and crimes of the government and their partners (in crime) and democracy has no hope until we all comes to the party.
Jason Cridland
