http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/ Journalism from London. Mon, 28 May 2012 07:28:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-2709 Mon, 04 Oct 2010 04:57:40 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-2709 Press Freedom, does it truly exist anymore Nik. Would you be interested in publishing an article about rampant police and CPS masonic corruption in the uk. ?

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-1584 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:21:05 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-1584 [...] Unwritten, unheard, unconceived By maxdunbar The latest issue of Private Eye, in a story that’s not online, quotes a lawyer saying that ‘libel tourism’ is ‘one of the few booming industries left in Britain.’ This seems to be backed up by an article in The Bookseller which may have stumbled upon a new aspect to Britain’s libel menace. [...]

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-1565 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:14:42 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-1565 On the bright side, it sounds like a great way for the cash-strapped city of London to earn foreign currency.

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-1552 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:59:48 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-1552 [...] describe and criticise the actions of the powerful, because that is how free societies work, but as Nick Cohen pointed out today, wealthy men and wealthy institutions are able to use Britain as a way of [...]

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-1304 Thu, 18 Jun 2009 10:03:04 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-1304 [...] went to court to stop the paper unmasking him. Unfortunately for him, the presiding judge was Mr Justice Eady. At the behest of a Saudi banker Eady ordered the pulping of Funding Evil, Rachel Ehrenfeld’s [...]

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-699 Thu, 12 Mar 2009 23:11:17 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-699 Sadly, to a degree, Rushbridger is reaping what he helped sow. Over many years he has attempted to separate his supposed worthy journalism from the supposed gutter press, claiming that they need to be reigned in by tougher regulations as their obsession with kiss-and-tell, humiliation of public figures for it’s own sake, abuse of privacy, etc…, put serious investigative journalism at risk because the government were being given an excuse to clamp down on press freedom.
The history of advances in free speech was one of defending the reprehensible in order to secure the freedom of the admirable.
Rushbridger’s attempt to save himself by throwing the gutter press to the wolves has simply given the would be oppressors more power and scope to clamp down on him.
A certain irony, perhaps, that Rushbridger got his job as a result of the last truly great Guardian editor’s fall due to a technical breach of laws on usage of House of Commons note-paper as he exposed Aitkin.
Rushbridger, saddled with the tasks of defending the Guardian in the subsequent libel case, won by the skin of his teeth on a last minute bit of luck.
After that, if he’d gone all out to attack our vile libel laws, our wider constraints on freedom of speech, maybe we could have avoided, or at least tempered, the dire attack on what remains of free-speech we now face.

]]> http://nickcohen.net/2009/03/01/time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-judges/#comment-595 Sun, 01 Mar 2009 18:39:30 +0000 http://nickcohen.net/?p=499#comment-595 http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/reformlibellaws/

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