Interview with Independent editor Andreas Whittam-Smith
- Title
- Interview with Independent editor Andreas Whittam-Smith
- Genre
- Interview
- TX Date
- Jul 1987
- Year of production
- 1987
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- Duration
- 00:01:40
- Description
- Editor of The Independent, Andreas Whittam-Smith, on the implications of the Appeal Court ruling on former intelligence officer Peter Wright’s Spycatcher memoirs. On the government being able to gag individual newspapers by taking out injunctions, and the difficulty The Sunday Times had attempting to continue to publish extracts. Male interviewer not identified.
- Contributors
- Andreas Whittam-Smith
- Keywords
- Books; Newspapers; Press; Sunday Times; Freedom of the press; Espionage; Spies; Legal decisions; Intelligence service; Peter Wright; Spycatcher; Injunctions
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