MEND’s press-reform recommendations were adopted while the group stays contested.
Evidence
In addition, MEND made an extremely comprehensive and compelling submission to the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practices and ethics of the British press, detailing how issues relating to Muslims and Islam are typically misunderstood and misrepresented in much news coverage. It is worth noting that all eight of MEND’s recommendations were included in the Inquiry’s final report, which was sealed by Royal Charter in October 2013. Despite this, MEND, like MAMA, is another organization that has come under intense media and political scrutiny. — Runnymede Trust (ed. Farah Elahi & Omar Khan), Islamophobia, 496
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- SHARE: For someone tracking UK press regulation history — a nonprofit anti-Islamophobia group got all eight recommendations into the Leveson final report.