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Revealed: the press regulator’s leaked guidelines on Islamophobia

7 September 2019

9:00 AM

7 September 2019

9:00 AM

If truthful reporting risks increasing tension between communities, should it still be published? Do journalists have a social duty to repress certain topics which are unhelpful? These questions tend to separate free societies from those countries where the press is muzzled. In Britain, there has been a tradition: readers decide what is acceptable.

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