UK among worst in Western Europe for freedom of press

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a8320691.html

A host of recent developments in the UK had threatened the press' ability to hold powerful people and institutions to account, the report found, including what it called an “alarming” proposal by the Law Commission to replace the Official Secrets Act with an updated Espionage Act.

The move “could make it easy to jail journalists as 'spies’ for obtaining leaked information and see them jailed for up to 14 years”, the report found.

“Maintaining our ranking of 40th out of 180 countries is nothing to be proud of, and puts us in the embarrassing position of having one of the worst records on press freedom in Western Europe,” RSF UK Bureau Director Rebecca Vincent said. “This is unacceptable for a country that plays an important international standard-setting role when it comes to human rights and fundamental freedoms.

Today's fake news conspiracy theory for the usual suspects to gnaw on.

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Well now that the Daily Express is owned by the Trinity Group, maybe some fake news (more like outright incitement to racism) might drop a bit: https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...ight-offensive