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Originally Posted by martyh
You have stated that the government blocked a story using a DA notice .You have failed to provide any evidence of this aside from it not being reported in a local rag and your union rep told .You refuse to accept that any attempt by the government to block stories by the government just so they look good would make a bigger scandal than anything the government have had to deal with in recent years ,in all honesty Tim you are making yourself look crazy
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Maybe I should have worded it differently: The government stopped (by whatever means), the stories being reported. The D-Notice is one method that they may have used.
Why would it cause a scandal? They would be blocking a local story, not a national one with huge public interest.
My step father used to be the press officer for one of the major political parties (not saying which one). And you wouldn't believe some of the underhand tactics that he told me about that goes on between the government and the press.