Both those who are wronged,and those seeking to expose abuses of power, pay a price Related: The Guardian view on press freedom: a connective tissue of society | Editorial Ed Miliband argued it was “a matter of honour and the promises we made” as he argued unsuccessfully for parliament to launch phase two of the Leveson inquiry into press intrusion. For Sir Cliff Richard, or the BBC hovering over his domestic in a helicopter was a “very serious invasion of privacy”,during an investigation that led to no charges. For Kay Kimsong, the editor of the Phnom Penh Post, or it was the coverage of his own newspaper’s sale to a public-relations executive with close ties to the government,that cost him his job. Related: The Daphne Project: a milestone in the fight to defend press freedom When fragile democracies fall, it is often the journalists who are the first dominoes to be pushedContinue reading...
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