Council calls in Press Watchdog over Argus article

The Argus has admitted that it omitted certain facts when reporting on a complaint by a resident in Coldean over the time taken to repair a pothole.

The paper printed the clarification after Brighton and Hove City Council contacted the Press Complains Commission following the story which was printed despite the paper knowing the pothole had been repaired just one day after receiving a complaint.

The press watchdog, which negotiated a settlement of the dispute, did not censure or criticise the paper.

It is not the first time Brighton and Hove City Council has not seen eye to eye and the Tory-led authority has said the routine omission of facts ‘does the reader a disservice’.

A council spokesman said: “It’s a small incident but the bigger story is that we routinely have our responses to questions edited or omitted. It does the reader a disservice because while such stories look more interesting they don’t help people understand what’s going on.”

In other news, The Argus apparently fell for an April Fools story after reporting Lord Bassam was rumoured to be a candidate in May’s local election, although the rumour was in fact an invention from the Brighton Politics Blogger.

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Posted by Joseph Lewis on April 5, 2011. Filed under Council News,The Argus. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can leave a response or trackback to this entry