Tuesday, 7 July 2020

No censorship - unless we want to censor it

Johnny Depp’s libel case against The Sun and its executive editor, Dan Wootton, has commenced at the High Court today.

Wootton began his talkRADIO show this afternoon by declaring it a "no censorship" zone. Now, no-one is expecting him or anyone else to comment on a live court case, but surely the station is running this story in its news bulletins (as the BBC, Global and others have done)? Of course not! I call that "censorship".

In 2015, Global advised its stations not to report on the HSBC scandal - in which the bank’s Swiss arm helped wealthy customers conceal millions of dollars in assets and dodge taxes - for "editorial reasons".

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