Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax havens

Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by mayank on Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:01PM (#11417696)

Not really, freedom of press is much narrower. What you're suggesting is an ideal world where journalists are protected from the egos and reputations of powerful people who might want to retaliate against them for their reporting. There are many forms of legal retaliation that freedom of press cannot protect against. In practice, this freedom is weighed against the consequences of publishing any single piece.

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Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by xg15 on Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:13PM (#11417772)

If not freedom from prosecution, then what else would "freedom of the press" guarantee?

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Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by mschuster91 on Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:20PM (#11417806)

For example, not having to run all (or huge parts of) your stories through a censor before being allowed to publish them (e.g. China, Israel).

Or, like in Germany, various protections like e.g. the police not allowed without complex judiciary checks to monitor the phones and internet connections of a journalist, or to go into a newspaper office and seizing random data to uncover a source.

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Re:Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca leak reveals elite's tax h... by mayank on Sunday April 03, 2016 @05:31PM (#11417854)

You can be prosecuted for reasons entirely unrelated to your publishing of a story, even if that is the true reason. Do you think people don't try to intimidate journalists?

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