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Press freedom isn’t ‘sentimental’ – it’s vital

2 December 2023

9:00 AM

2 December 2023

9:00 AM

‘We can be quite sentimental about some of our so-called treasured assets,’ said Lord Johnson, one of Kemi Badenoch’s business ministers, earlier this week. ‘The reality is that media and information has moved on. Clearly, most of us today don’t buy a physical newspaper or necessarily go to a traditional news source.’

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