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einar writes:
Irish Times has an article quoting Guardian deputy editor, Paul Johnson, that the Guardian was threatened to be closed by the British government. According to Johnson, the Snowden leak was the most difficult story the Guardian has ever done.
As a reminder, the newspaper was walking a tightrope keeping the balance between giving in where necessary and defending the freedom of press in a country where this right is rather weak. During the Snowden leaks, even PCs were destroyed in the presence of GCHQ agents. All in the name of national security.
From the article:
Mr Johnson said the whole attitude in the UK was that national security trumped press freedom and that the newspaper should not publish a word. This was in contrast to the US, where the Snowden revelations had led to a debate about how far intelligence agencies should go to protect the state.
(Score: 5, Informative) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:18PM
Misleading headline wnd write-up.
From the Article:
He has since contacted The Irish Times to state that he meant to convey that the British Government would close down its coverage of the Snowden leaks, rather than the newspaper itself.
In fact, the whole point of this new story is to clarify that fact...
(Score: 5, Funny) by DeathMonkey on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:23PM
For the record it is still a travesty.
But...Our chief weapon is accuracy...accuracy and facts...facts and accuracy.... Our two weapons are facts and accuracy...and the truth.... Our *three* weapons are facts, accuracy, and the truth...and an almost fanatical devotion to honesty.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as facts, accuracy.... I'll come in again.
(Score: 2) by davester666 on Friday March 28 2014, @04:09AM
They are making ANOTHER Monty Python film?
(Score: 5, Insightful) by dotdotdot on Thursday March 27 2014, @06:34PM
The sentence you quoted is buried in the middle of the article. The headline was intentionally vague. The picture caption implies Guardian as a whole. The very first sentence states as much also.
So it seems to me that the whole point of the story is for The Irish Times to sell ads.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by HiThere on Thursday March 27 2014, @07:36PM
If someone tells you he's been threatened, and then after you have made this public he calls you up to say "it wasn't really that bad", which do you believe?
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by MrGuy on Thursday March 27 2014, @07:47PM
No, no, no, don't misunderstand us, friends! We didn't threaten to close a major outlet of the independent press. We simply threatened to CENSOR a major outlet of the independent press because we didn't like what they were going to say! Totally different! We'd only close threaten to close them down if they didn't voluntarily allow us to censor them.