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Charlie Beckett

May 15th, 2008

Undercover Mosque

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Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Charlie Beckett

May 15th, 2008

Undercover Mosque

1 comment

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

It’s not often I get something right so allow me to point out that I was one of the first people to express outrage at the West Midlands Police/CPS assault on Channel 4 over the “Undercover Mosque” programme.

Today they are in the High Court across the road from my office to apologise and pay damages. As Olive Kamm points out today even the Muslim Council of Britain thought they had gone too far.

In a way this whole fiasco suggests that Ofcom and the other organisations that impact upon media freedom can get things right. Let’s hope that the judicial authorities have taken proper note of the right balance between avoiding offence and prosecuting legitimate journalism.

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