UK: Women's groups demand new watchdog to confront sexism in the media

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'A coalition of women's groups has called for the issue of sexism in the media to be taken on by a new regulatory body in the runup to publication of Lord Justice Leveson's report on the press this Thursday.

Four women's organisations monitored the content of 11 national newspapers over a randomly chosen fortnight in early September, finding more than 1,300 articles and images that raised concerns over how women and violence against them are portrayed in the British press. They say their findings should inform proposals for a new era of newspaper regulation.

The analysis, published on Sunday – International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women – warns that newspaper coverage is glamorising and, on occasion, eroticising violence against women and girls, and helps normalise rape while undermining the criminal justice system by creating jurors who hold prejudices against female victims.'