Former editor-in-chief of Guardian tells Society of Editors’ conference that use of surveillance powers to discover journalistic sources is ‘greatest scandal of allAlan Rusbridger,the former editor-in-chief of the Guardian, has accused Fleet Street of behaving like a private club with a bunker mentality, and during both the phone-hacking scandal and following threats to civil liberties.
In a wide-ranging speech at the Society of Editors’ annual conference on Sunday night,Rusbridger also took aim at the government’s response to the phone-hacking scandal when he called the resulting royal constitution on press regulation a “piece of medieval flummery”.
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Source: theguardian.com