Mike Nesbitt, Newton Emerson and Sam McBride explain why DUP vetoed libel reform
Mike Nesbitt was featured in the News Letter under a headline that roughly went: the rich and powerful are using the libel law to gag the media.
Newton Emerson said something to similar effect in the Sunday Times of July 7 2013, as you can see in the image below:
"The DUP has offered no satisfactory explanation for blocking Westminster’s Libel Reform Act… but the blizzard of writs the DUP sent Spotlight, both before and after the broadcast, highlights the unusually large role that libel plays in NI’s political discourse."
Sam McBride echoed the sentiments and spelled things out on Twitter:
The volume of solicitors' letters from DUP to BBC over one Spotlight episode gives a pretty clear hint as to why DUP blocked libel reform
— Sam McBride (@SJAMcBride) July 3, 2013
Read my essay on eamonnmallie.com with analysis and criticism of the DUP veto of libel reform, here.
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