{"id":247456,"date":"2021-07-21T19:47:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/?p=189337"},"modified":"2021-07-21T19:47:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:47:23","slug":"how-a-proposed-secrecy-law-would-recast-journalism-as-spying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/07\/21\/how-a-proposed-secrecy-law-would-recast-journalism-as-spying\/","title":{"rendered":"How A Proposed Secrecy Law Would Recast Journalism As Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 years ago one of us was arrested under the Official Secrets Act for working on a story for Time Out magazine, where the other one of us was the news editor. This led to the so-called ABC case, named after fellow reporter\u00a0Crispin Aubrey, a brave ex-soldier whistleblower called John Berry, and the aforesaid Campbell. A lengthy Old Bailey trial followed in 1978 and, with it, a major discrediting of the use of the act against the press.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/how-a-proposed-secrecy-law-would-recast-journalism-as-spying\/\">How A Proposed Secrecy Law Would Recast Journalism As Spying<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/popularresistance.org\/how-a-proposed-secrecy-law-would-recast-journalism-as-spying\/\">PopularResistance.Org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nearly 50 years ago one of us was arrested under the Official Secrets Act for working on a story for Time Out magazine, where the other one of us was the news editor. This led to the so-called ABC case, named after fellow reporter\u00a0Crispin Aubrey, a bra&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1557,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,5722,640,94],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1557"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247457,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247456\/revisions\/247457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}