“Balancing the right to privacy and freedom of expression is a delicate exercise. But in Britain this balance is being tilted too far towards the former with the result that the rich and powerful are being handed tools to evade legitimate scrutiny.
The latest restriction on press freedom is a draft new statutory code of practice for journalists drawn up by the Information Commissioner’s Office……………………
That is why in a joint letter to the Culture Secretary and Dominic Rabb, the justice secretary, the editors of The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The Daily Mail warn that the proposal could undermine ‘the very basis of journalism’. “
No doubt having got that off their chests the Editors, together with their stinking rich proprietors mounted a picket outside Belmarsh Prison, protesting at the incarceration of Julian Assange?
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