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Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism

Shooting the Messenger: Criminalising Journalism

Hardcover

Series: Criminalization of Political Dissent

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138296600
ISBN13: 9781138296602
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Mar 27 2018
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Since 9/11 governments as diverse as the US, the UK, France and Australia have introduced tough legislation to intimidate the legitimate activities of a probing press, in such great need after the Iraq War proved that executive government could not be trusted. Through detailed research and analysis, this book, which includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Edward Snowden, explains how mass surveillance and anti-terror laws are of questionable value in defeating terrorism, but have had a 'chilling effect' on one of the foundations of democracy, revelatory journalism.

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