Message on press freedom
| Document type: | Speeches, interviews, etc. |
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| Venue: | Unknown |
| Source: | |
| Journalist: | Dennis Signy, Finchley Times |
| Editorial comments: | See Finchley Times, 14 February 1975: "Mrs Thatcher sent this message to me within minutes of her success in Tuesday’s ballot for the leadership: "If Press freedom goes, democracy goes". Signy, editor of the Finchley Times, was publicising the view that NUJ closed shops threatened editorial freedom. ("Mrs Thatcher has been taking a keen interest in a complaint lodged against me with North London Branch of the National Union of Journalists by a junior indentured reporter".) |
| Importance ranking: | Minor |
| Word count: | nil |
| Themes: | Media, Trade unions |