“Publish and be damned.”
Arthur Wellesley
1st Duke of Wellington (1824)
Quis Custodiet (QC) is dedicated to the notion that all news media should be held accountable.
But some media organisations refuse to be regulated by any authority.
For those self-regulated, accountability-averse outfits and their victims, QC is the answer.
QC is holding unregulated media accountable.
Recent QC Publications
No significant breach in Guardian coverage of Nigel Farage school racism allegations
Guardian reporting meets QC standards on accuracy, fairness, verification, and proportionality
No Significant Breach in Telegraph Column on Guardian Farage Exposé
No evidence of material factual inaccuracies or misquotations has been identified in the Telegraph article. The pejorative characterisations of The Guardian as engaging in “smears” and a “hit job” are clearly opinions, not statements of undisclosed fact.
Mitigated breach in Michael Alfaro Commentary on China-Philippines Maritime Incident
Honest mistakes do not constitute misconduct when they occur during unfolding news events; they are corrected swiftly and transparently; they are followed by acknowledgement and remedial learning.
No significant breach in Guardian FGM coverage
The concerns raised relate to minor nuances rather than any substantive distortion. The broad assertion that both Christians and Muslims in Egypt have practised FGM culturally was accurate and proportionate.
False Allegation Campaign Manager Was Holocaust Denier
KRCG posted on "X" that State Rep. Sarah Unsicker was seen with "two" men cited as being "Holocaust deniers", when one was not a Holocaust denier.
Campaign Against Guardian and Other Unregulated Media
Announcing the launch of QC, an independent service that will hold to account those media outlets which refuse to be answerable to a regulatory body.
Unlike Dyson, Victims of Unregulated Media Without His Money Have No Chance of Being Heard
Wealth is key to the ability to seek redress, but QC aims to give everyone the right to fair reply against unregulated media.
New Project Offers Swift Resolution Over Complaints Against Unregulated Media
A new project to ‘guard the guardians’ will be launched soon to offer some reckoning for victims of unregulated media organisations that hold themselves above accountability.
