Hello and welcome to Youcare.com

If this is your first visit to the Youcare web site please take a little time to explore these pages and get a feel for this site. We are a campaigning website that has been created in an attempt to highlight and improve declining standards of newspaper journalism in the UK. We believe that the implementation of a few simple law changes will ensure greater press responsibility and accountability, therefore integrity.

It is vital that we all begin to take an interest in the role of the media in our democracy and the need to halt declining standards. Journalism is supposed to be at the heart of a fully functioning democracy and newspapers have a responsibility to inform us effectively, involving us as citizens in the democratic process. Many newspapers are clearly falling way short of the standards expected and have become little more than the salacious propaganda rags of a few powerful individuals.

In the age we now live in, never have so few possessed the means to manipulate the opinions of so many. Elements of the British media claim to represent the interests of the British people when in truth they clearly pursue their own agenda.

A prime example is the Sun’s relentless echoing of government policy concerning the war on terrorism and the continued erosion of our human rights and civil liberties as citizens in the UK. According to the Sun newspaper fundamental human rights that many brave citizens have fought and have died for should simply be discarded without even a second thought or debate. This dangerous and extreme point of view they portray with a nationalistic bravado that often borders on racism.

All journalists working for this newspaper tow the party line and design articles to spread maximum fear and push forward this anti-humanitarian agenda. This corporate propaganda organisation is called a newspaper and often laughably suggests that it is the voice of the British people, when in truth it is in bed with the government in it’s unwavering support to implement draconian, anti-terror legislation that gives unprecedented power to the state over the rights of the individual.

This continued echoing of government policy is dangerous to the British people and is helping to put in place a fear driven surveillance society that is quickly being implemented in the UK.

Rupert Murdoch is one man with the power to manipulate billions of people worldwide. These organisations need to be regulated properly, they are no longer a free press looking after the interests of this population, they are massive conglomerate corporations and as such must be regulated effectively.

These are just the kind of issues that we wish the British Public to begin debating on our forum. It seems the British press are constantly accusing and abusing, bitching and slandering with no redress and very little feedback from the British public as to the quality of information they supply. So please get involved! We intend on publishing a regular Blog that raises interesting questions concerning vital media issues and the current news agenda. We encourage you whole heartedly to get involved, to read between the lines, to see beyond the PR spin and the hype and help us to analyse current media subjects by posting on our new MEDIA FEEDBACK FORUM.

If you have been the victim of tabloid lies and abuse then please tell us YOUR STORIES , your privacy of course will be protected if that is your wish but the more the public are made aware of the lack of integrity and downright hypocritical maliciousness of the tabloid press pack the better for us all and the stronger and more vital this campaign and website will become. More people will become aware of the need for more effective press regulation and sign our PETITION.

On this note take a look at our VIDEO BLOG. To begin our campaign we have made a couple of short videos which we have published on YOUTUBE concerning the Hillsborough tragedy and the Sun newspaper’s terrible lies concerning the reporting of this tragedy, to highlight why law changes are necessary in the UK. We will be publishing more in the future and are open to any ideas of topics we should cover or indeed please send in your films or links to relevant info we can publish.

Please GET INVOLVED, we will not be able to fight injustice in the media on our own. If you see an offending article in the press or online please photocopy or scan it and send it to us via the get involved link together with your written thoughts. In this way we will all be able to police declining standards together and generate the content we will need to raise awareness of these important issues and to help improve standards. Soon we will be running competitions where the best information from you the MEDIA DETECTIVES will win a prize. Also send us your artwork. Cartoons, poetry, songs or anything else you wish concerning the fight for truth and justice in journalism and the best ones will be published on the site and the artists will win a prize.

Thank you for your letters of support it is clear to all concerned that this is no easy campaign but a journey of ten thousand miles starts with a single step and your LETTERS OF SUPPORT will help to keep our spirits up along the way. Anybody who cares about the importance of truth and fair play in the media, this is your website and your campaign so please get involved and show the world that YOUCARE.COM