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THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has welcomed the press regulator’s ruling that a Sun newspaper column by Jeremy Clarkson attacking Meghan Markle was misogynistic.
In the column, the former Top Gear host said he dreamt of seeing Ms Markle “paraded naked through the streets and pelted with excrement.”
The Independent Press Standards Organisation’s (Ipso) ruled that the article presented a serious breach of the Editors’ Code of Practice.
Lord Faulks, Ipso’s chairman, said the language used by Mr Clarkson to describe the Duchess of Sussex was “humiliating and degrading,” included a “pejorative and prejudicial reference” to her sex, and spread “dangerous conspiracy theories and misogyny.”
Ipso’s upholding of a complaint for sexism is its first since the regulator was established in 2014.
Welcoming the ruling, the NUJ equality council said that “journalists should not produce ‘material likely to lead to hatred or discrimination on the grounds of a person’s age, gender, race, colour, creed, legal status, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation’.”
