Pippa Smith
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A married mother of three children, now grown up. Pippa has lived in various parts of the world having emigrated with her family to New Zealand, then on return to the UK became a Service wife. Qualified as a bi-lingual secretary, she also taught French to adults and primary school children. Her interest in media standards began as a result of the BBC’s portrayal of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in the mid 1990s, and she formed FIRMA (Families Involved in Raising Media Awareness) with some friends. Subsequently she met Miranda Suit and they discovered a shared a vision to do something about the decline in media standards. They formed a new organisation, mediamarch, and held their first peaceful protest outside the Horseferry Road HQ of Channel 4 following the programme, ‘Animal Passions’. Since then they have worked to raise awareness, lobbied Parliament and held two Parliamentary Conferences: the first in November 2008 on ‘The Harmful Effects of Violent Films and Computer Games on Young People’s Behaviour, and Effective Preventive Action’; and the second in November 2010, ‘The Harm that Pornography Does: Its Effects of Adults and Children and the Need For Regulatory Reform’. Also in November 2010 they achieved charitable status and relaunched as the charity Safermedia which is run on a voluntary basis.
To find out more and view their current work and campaign, go to the Safermedia website: http://www.safermedia.org.uk

Blog Entries by Pippa Smith

Pornography on the School Syllabus?

(58) Comments | Posted 7 May 2013 | (00:00)

Teachers, parents and charities are rightly worried about the scale of children's access to pornography on the internet and the real harm this is causing them. However the new guidance for teachers from the Sex Education Forum is deeply disturbing as teachers are encouraged to tell pupils in sex education...

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50 Shades of Grey Has Propelled Pornography and Sadomasochism to a New Level of Public Awareness and Acceptance

(74) Comments | Posted 7 August 2012 | (00:00)

It is incredible how swiftly Fifty Shades has entered the public lexicon with barely an eyebrow lifted, whether it's a serious comment piece in the Daily Telegraph entitled, 'A government with 50 shades of grey would have the whip hand' or npower's energy-saving Twitter campaign, '50 Shades of Green'.

Personally,...

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In a World Where Anything Goes

(0) Comments | Posted 28 June 2012 | (09:15)

"In a World Where Anything Goes"

Do we really live in a world where anything goes? According to the BBC's Cherry Healey, we do. In a recent programme, 'How to Get a Life' on BBC One, she repeated this statement more than once.

The idea was, apparently, to find...

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Sexualisation of Children - Protecting Innocence Online

(36) Comments | Posted 19 June 2012 | (00:00)

At long last there is a reality check going on about the dangers children face on the internet from pornography. We read with horror of children as young as eight admitting to pornography addiction, or the 12-year-old boy who raped a nine year old girl because he wanted to 'feel...

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