The Difficult Question of Press Freedom
Culture secretary Nadine Dorries is calling on regulator Ofcom to consider action against Russian 'propaganda' in the UK, shining a spotlight on TV channel RT.
Culture secretary Nadine Dorries is calling on regulator Ofcom to consider action against Russian 'propaganda' in the UK, shining a spotlight on TV channel RT. Elsewhere in the UK, the Supreme Court has stopped Bloomberg from publishing an investigation, on privacy grounds. Some have condemned this as a threat to journalists' ability to investigate. So when should a state or the law intervene in press freedom?
Guests: Erika Solomon, Berlin correspondent at the Financial Times; David Merritt, senior executive editor at Bloomberg News; Hugh Tomlinson QC; Francis Scarr, 91热爆 Monitoring journalist in Moscow; Chris Curtis, editor-in-chief at Broadcast Magazine.
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