by Justin Schlosberg This week we learned lessons in crisis management given by Tony Blair to former News of the World editor Rebekka Brooks, at the height of the phone hacking scandal. Accordingto Brooks, the former Prime Minister advised her to set up an independent inquiry that produces a ‘Hutton style report’. This reference to the widely-discredited whitewash … [Read more...]
Journalists in the Dock: A new low for British justice, accountability and democracy
by Justin Schlosberg This week, the chairman of the home affairs select committee, Keith Vaz, asked the editor of the Guardian newspaper, Alan Rusbridger, whether he loves this country. This question was significant not just because of the immediate context in which it was posed (the Guardian’s revelations of mass surveillance by security services). It was significant … [Read more...]