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> Everything links back to the Guardian.
According to a report by Richard Pendlebury of the Daily Mail, the Media Standards Trust tried to usurp and replace the authority of the Press Complaints Commission. Pendlebury says they used a bogus research report and fake news reports in the Guardian to buff up their credentials, and were given unusually favorable coverage by the BBC. https://archive.is/8Aj2V
Key figures include:
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David Bell - chairman of the Financial Times
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Julia Middleton - of Demos, Rockefeller Brothers, Common Purpose
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Helena Kennedy - President of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and board member of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue
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Albert Scardino - Executive editor of the Guardian 2002-2004