There is no such commission in the United States. The government has zero power to regulate what a newspaper wants to publish. I have heard about some newspapers considering such standards, but they would be entirely voluntary.
Really? We had these in the USA too. SE Asians, usually referring to Vietnamese escaping Vietnam.
You are just as bad (maybe worse) than the criminals you rail against if you believe this. Disgusting.
Refugees who arrive by boat seeking asylum. They are enormously unpopular here and both of the major parties campaigning for our upcoming election are emphasising their plan to “stop the boats”.
Yes, really. Thank you for answering and I apologize for not knowing everything in the world.
Thanks for answering. I was thinking it was tourists from cruise ships being a-holes or something.
I don’t think the Press Complaints Commission is a government org. It’s an industry self-regulating org.
I’m sure US media outlets have some sort of internal style guide too.
Just to amplify Eliahna’s answer a little.
There is a blackmarket industry in Indonesia run by ‘people smugglers’ that organise boats (often old fishing boats) to ferry illegal immigrants from Indonesia to Australia. The individuals paying for this service are from a diverse background (in terms of their countries of origin), but all essentially claim to be refugees from their respective homelands for one reason or another.
The issue has been used by various political figures and parties in Australia as a points scoring exercise and has been escalated beyond how much of a problem it actually is. (Of the total number of foreigners illegally in Australia, those arriving by boat is a minor percentage). The boat people issue seems to hit home to a lot of Aussies though because it is seen as being ‘unfair’. Australia takes in a fair number of refugees each year through a formal immigration process where the refugees are granted permanent residency, etc but those arriving by boat are seen as trying to cheat the system/jumping the queue, which is just not on! 
A news organization might if it chooses to do so institute its own ethical code for its employees. Not all news organizations have, and there is nothing that requires them to do so. Even if an organization does have a code of conduct on paper, there is nothing that requires it to enforce that code.
The sole exception might be those entities that hold a license to broadcast over the public airwaves. In theory, the F. C. C. could revoke a license for failure to serve the public interest, but I’ve never heard of that happening when the “offense” is the dissemination of truthful information.
Simply put a court can order the parties before it to maintain confidentiality but if the press finds out, there is notches ism to prevent dissemination. There is no general power of a court to issue gag orders against the general public like there is in Canada.
I’ve been disturbed by what I only found out today when I discovered that the original picture I had seen misrepresented the third suspect as Black. Pretty irresponsible reporting.
An article in the “Herald Sun News” from Melbourne, Australia had a pretty informative article claiming that the three boys were affiliated with the Crips gang. So perhaps they were partaking in some kind of initiation ritual?
Another possible angle mentioned was that one of the boys was an aspiring Olympics wrestler so there may have been some connection there. Jealousy?
We don’t know whether they singled out their victim but they did drive to a different part of town to ease their boredom.
He went black?
On edit, asked and answered a lot.
Returning now to our regularly scheduled thread.
And just to amplify on your amplification…
The term “boat people” started being current in the 70’s, when it applied to Vietnamese immigrants, large numbers of whom were settled here and in the US (and possibly other places?) by a fairly formalised process organised by the receiving governments themselves.
The current boat-migration wave comes mainly from Afghanistan, with some Sri Lankans and others in the mix. The vast majority of them are in fact refugees (as judged by the various government bodies whose task it is to judge such things), but the major political parties both try to spend an enormous amount of time and effort trying to obscure this. It’s a bizarrely significant political hot potato, given that boat people are only about 5% or so of each year’s total migration intake.
ETA: I’m not as restrained as Gleena. Getting off hobby-horse in three…two…
HA, you must have seen my unedited answer. 
Actually not, but I like it already just from that comment 
Correct, but the PCC code is widely respected and adhered to within the industry. Usually.
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Cite? :dubious:
I would imagine they acquired it illegally.
The question is, how difficult is it to acquire a firearm illegally?
Perhaps we need to work on that. :dubious: