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Originally Posted by PedOncoDoc
They may try, but the media would only turn more against them, citing their 1st amendment rights. The news doesn't care about ethics, national security or responsibility - they care about selling papers and TV ratings.
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There is no 1st Amendment in the UK and Parliament is the only place where the closest thing to such a concept exists there.
Under Section 5 (Information resulting from unauthorised disclosures or entrusted in confidence) of the Official Secrets Act of 1911 (last revised in 1989), the UK does have the authority to take such actions against the media - even though such a move would probably prove very unpopular after the Tomlinson affair and the eventual publishing of "The Big Breach."
When I was doing research on individual "rights" and the Diplock Courts in Northern Ireland, I came to realize how important that 1st Amendment to the US Constitution really is and how tenuous such a "right" can be without it.
Richard
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