Update: More on the lack of press freedom in Llanelli to be found here
Friday, 15 March 2013
A further blow against scrutiny
Like many others we've read the press accounts that blogger Jacqui Thompson lost her libel action against Carmarthenshire council. No doubt we will get full details from her and Y Cneifiwr later on.
Meanwhile, our sincere hope is that this diminution of free speech & scrutiny does not extend into a further crackdown on openness in that part of the world. Looking at events in Llanelli though it might already turn out to be a forlorn one.
Update: More on the lack of press freedom in Llanelli to be found here
Update: More on the lack of press freedom in Llanelli to be found here
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As a carmarthenshire council tax payer I am concerned that all this was funded by our Labour controlled council. Surely our well paid chief exec can afford to sue bloggers himself on his salary? We already have a council that puts pressure on local papers by removing advertising if they run "negative" stories. Now we are paying to keep the bloggers quiet too.
ReplyDeleteIt's the "notes removed" bit I find really worrying.
ReplyDeleteI can't decide if Mark James is a Jane Austen Reverend Collins type or a Darth Vader clone as he has been described on this blog before.
ReplyDeleteEither way I bet he sees himself now as a relative of the 3 in 1 bringing righteousness and justice into a dark world where ordinary people mistakenly believe they can criticise government officials. Psshaw!
I guess what he will never "get" is that he can never be right about any of this. The judgement against Jackie Thompson doesn't look like justice to me, but even if it is legally correct, Mark James is still a powerful man who has taken on an ordinary 50 year old woman in order to crush her.That is reprehensible and shows him up to be a very sad little man indeed.
And meanwhile much of the left support Hacked Off and their moves to control the press and its scrutiny of the elite.
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