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Roy Greenslade

Saddam: a new definition of press freedom?

There's no doubt about the main media topic in today's papers: the videophone footage of Saddam Hussein's execution. According to Tim Luckhurst in the Independent on Sunday it shows that "citizen journalism has come of age" and made "traditional editorial processes... redundant." Edward Helmore in The Observer agrees, arguing that the "snuff video" signals the end of editorial control, making debates about taste irrelevant. Over the page Peter Preston asks questions which, he writes, have "no consistent answers" and concludes that we have "witnessed one more definition of press freedom: the right to make your own mind up about what to write, print or see - which (because it's a freedom) includes the right to get it wrong." (Via The Observer and Independent on Sunday)

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