Search Options
close
Search the following clips:
All Clips
Everyone's Clips
My Guides
Sign Up
Install
Learn More
Login
Twitter Thwarts Attempt To Gag Uk Media
ljsdesign
follow
5
10-13-2009 1:18 PM
94 views
tags:
twitter
,
gag order
,
media
,
reporting
,
courts
,
uk
ljsdesign
says:
read the whole article
Add a Comment
Login
to Comment. Not a member yet?
Sign up
Today's Top Clips
Monday awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.........
24 Impressive Black & White Photos
Agony as a father has to decide: Do I save my wife or my son?
20 Stunning Landscape Photos
The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama
Beautiful Digital Photography
An Inconvenient Truth: "cherry-picked" Data
Brrrrrrr, it's snowing in Afghanistan
Remember those dreamlike images of Dubai? Guess what. You WERE dreaming
25 Awesome Cubicle Pranks
visit the
Top Clips page
View the Top Clips from
October 13, 2009
Embed This Clip In Your Site...
<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3b90be34-1c5f-44b6-89fe-aa4f13568f50/D4F24A3D-C888-4F1E-867F-C48A5386832C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html" href="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html" style="font-size: 11px;">wbztv.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html">Bloggers and Twitter users thwarted a legal attempt Tuesday to stop Britain's media from reporting the questions posed by a lawmaker in a parliamentary debate, spotlighting the power of new media to influence public policy.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html">The case involving lawmaker Paul Farrelly had threatened the rights of journalists to report anything debated in Parliament. British law allows the media to report any comments made in Parliament without fear of running afoul of Britain's often draconian privacy and libel laws.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html">The legal attempt began Monday in debate about a European company accused of dumping waste in west Africa.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html">obtained an injunction from Britain's High Court that prevented The Guardian newspaper from reporting questions </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://wbztv.com/wireapnational/The.truth.is.2.1245008.html">The blogosphere erupted in outrage. Bloggers and users of the social networking site Twitter exchanged data on who the case may involve. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D4F24A3D-C888-4F1E-867F-C48A5386832C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
New from the makers of Clipmarks:
Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!
Clipmarks
Home
New Clips
Top Clips
Dashboard
Popular Topics
News
Life
Science
Technology
Entertainment
Get Started
Sign Up
Install Clipping Tool
How Clipping Works
Clip-to-Blog™
ClipSearch
Tools and Resources
FAQ
ClipWeek
Top Clippers
Top Tags
Site Map
About Clipmarks
About Us
Contact
Copyright
Privacy
EULA
OK