360° Coverage : Neil Wallis: In Defence of Self-Regulation

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Neil Wallis: In Defence of Self-Regulation

Source: The Huffington Post: UK Edition, Nov 8 2012, 8:09am CST

Media commentator, former tabloid editor - and currently under arrest as part of Operation Weeting Britain has enjoyed Press Freedom for 317 years. It was finally wrestled from the grasp of the State, after centuries of campaigning, in 1695. Ma ...

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Liberty comes out against press liberty

Source: Spiked | May 23 2013, 1:30am CDT

The UK’s top civil liberties lobby has finally played its hand on the press – it favours statutory backed regulation. ‘If as you say this is a war’, one journalist remarked to me last week, ‘which side is Liberty on?’ (expletives deleted). Well, now we k ...

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MPs write to Privy Council to protest press industry's proposals for regulation

Source: The Independent | May 22 2013, 12:51pm CDT

A majority of MPs on the House of Commons specialist media committee have written to the Privy Council to protest over the press industry's proposals for its future regulation. Six members of the Media, Culture ...

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"A free press is the unsleeping guardian of every other right that free men prize; it is the most dangerous foe of tyranny..."

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Journalists Must Fight for Their Media Space - Expert

Source: AllAfrica.com | May 22 2013, 9:15am CDT

Uganda's veteran journalist Ben Bella Illakut preaches caution in the fight for media freedom but still insists government must not tell journalists what to write. The fight for media freedom is not easy because "the politica ...

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Regulation could shut down UK press

Source: The Australian | May 21 2013, 7:51pm CDT

LOCAL newspapers in Britain could be forced to stop printing if a new system of press regulation proposed by politicians resulted in a flood of compensation claims, publishers told MPs yesterday (Tuesday). Editors would face much greater pressure f ...

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Leveson aide Shami Chakrabarti casts doubt on plans for media regulation

Source: Daily Mail - UK | May 21 2013, 7:22pm CDT

Shami Chakrabarti slams idea of Royal Charter to oversee new regulatorShe says it's 'constitutionally inappropriate, undemocratic and opaque'Suggests Press could set up self-regulatory body with power to fine A ...

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Jailing journalists over phone hacking will damage Britain's image abroad, says John Whittingdale

Source: The Telegraph | May 21 2013, 12:23pm CDT

He said: “What happened in Britain, as is now slowly becoming clear, is that a number of journalists plotted to obtain stories and did so by breaking the law.” Some had listened to messages, hacked into computers and “ ...

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If the press isn't free, neither are you

Source: The Telegraph | May 18 2013, 3:53pm CDT

Governments want to control information. To do this they have elaborate systems for promoting themselves via propaganda departments, and for ensuring confidentiality with official-secrets laws. There are good reasons for these: people n ...

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360° Coverage : Neil Wallis: In Defence of Self-Regulation