Moving reminder of this tragedy. Thank you for summarising the sequence and context and the impact of those in this community. I paused to see the graveyard with all the white arches for each per...
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/where-have-all-the-flowers-gone-remembering-aberfan/#comment-253
(PS It's a very good Spiegel article!)
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalism-under-attack-the-guardian-and-press-freedom/#comment-252
Fair point Tim - and most of the time that doesn't matter very much. But occasionally there are circumstances where it matters a lot, and I would judge this to be one of those moments.
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalism-under-attack-the-guardian-and-press-freedom/#comment-251
In reply to both you and Prof Sambrook, I point you to this article from Germany (link below) and further suggest that this is (yet another) indication that the old nonsense about journalists bei...
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalism-under-attack-the-guardian-and-press-freedom/#comment-247
I'm not sure he had much choice although, as he said, it illustrated the authorities complete lack of understanding about how global digital journalism works to think this would make any differen...
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Thanks Kirsten - yes, this was clarified after I posted, although he did say he thought the UK would come to "regret" their action in his piece in The Guardian I think.
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalists-terror-laws-and-the-guardian/#comment-244
And what is your opinion of Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger's admission that he was intimidated by two GCHQ security men into smashing two computer hard drives in the basement of Guardian Towers?...
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalists-terror-laws-and-the-guardian/#comment-242
As to point 3, it has been clarified that Glenn Greenwald did not say that the government would be "sorry" for what they had done: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19/no-...
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalists-terror-laws-and-the-guardian/#comment-241
Reposting this on Calderdale NUJ Facebook page, hope this is ok? https://www.facebook.com/CalderdaleNUJ
https://www.jomec.co.uk/blog/journalists-terror-laws-and-the-guardian/#comment-240
I know many people around the world who would LOVE to be able to subscribe to BBC iPlayer!
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