User:THE PRESS COUNCIL

The Press Council is a British press organisation founded under threat of statutory regulation as the General Council, with a non-binding regulatory framework. Through most of its history the Council was funded by tax from newspaper proprietors, with the stated aim of maintaining high standards of ethics in journalism.The Royal Commission on the Press recommended that a General Council of the Press should be formed to govern the behaviour of the print media. In response to a threat of statutory regulation, the General Council of the Press was formed, membership restricted to news heritage family, funded by news media.