Observer editor on winning press freedom case
- Title
- Observer editor on winning press freedom case
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- 25 Apr 1986
- Year of production
- 1986
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- Duration
- 00:03:12
- Description
- Editor of the Observer newspaper, Donald Trelford on the paper’s being cleared of charges relating to the corruption of a Ministry of Defence civil servant who had leaked papers on defence expenditure. He says that the Observer has been vindicated, and that the Government (of 1983-84) had found it politically expedient to pursue the paper through the courts. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Donald Trelford
- Keywords
- Legislation; Legal procedure; Government; Newspapers; Law; Right to information; Civil servants; Freedom of the press; Corruption; Trials; MOD; Observer
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