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The AEJ is active across the continent
of Europe. Please visit its website, www.aej.org,
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What others have said about the AEJ's Media
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The Press Ombudsman, Dr John Horgan, Eileen Dunne, chair of the Irish Section
of the AEJ, and William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative,
at the 45th AEJ congress in Dublin Castle — Irish Times. (Photograph: Dara Mac
Dónaill)
CNN: On 18 November 2008, William Horsley was interviewed on CNN's International Correspondents. The main topic was the prohibition of the cartoon in El Jueves, the Spanish satirical magazine (see below). No recording is available, but a transcript is (NB the interview is the last item, so please scroll down to see it).
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References The Irish Times kindly gave us permission to reproduce Emerging threats to freedom of the press. By Paul Gillespie. 17 November 2007 The Communications Initiative
Network has a page devoted to the Survey. News of the
Survey was also posted on: See NUJ for
report of the Survey Update launch in Brussels The following Turkish language articles appeared in Halkın Gazetesi BirGün: Özgürlüğe veda mi? Avrupa medyası kıskaç altında By Zeynep
Oğuz. 3 December 2007 |
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Viewpoint: Media freedom
dented By William
Horsley, writer on European affairs London, 13 November 2007 Was it lèse majesté or just a
good laugh? Scurrilous libel or a witty commentary on a topical issue for
Spanish parents?
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Their offence
was to have published a cartoon last July making ribald fun of the heir to
the Spanish throne, and of the government's scheme to encourage women to have
more babies by giving mothers a special payment for each new birth. It was a
caricature of Prince Filipe having sex with his wife, Princess Letizia, and
telling her: "Do you realise that if you get pregnant, it will be
the closest thing to work I've done in my life?" For the full text of this article, see BBC Online See
also Letter to the Editor of The Times, co-signed by the AEJ UK Chairman, on 19
May 2008 about protection of journalistic sources |
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