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Premier orders 'reduced' contact with The Royal Gazette and sister paper

"Premier Ewart Brown has ordered communications officers at the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Tourism and Transport to "reduce their contact" with The Royal Gazette and its sister newspaper, the Mid-Ocean News.  He issued the instruction in an e-mail seen by this newspaper in which he told his press secretary Glenn Jones: "Until further notice I want to leave them out of the loop."

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      There are already talks of censorship as the Premier appears to show preference for The Sun newspaper.  Possibly this action is linked to the Gazette's reporting of concerns about Government expenditure (leakage?), an example of the contempt apparently sown for the right to free speech or another reaction to the Gazette's actions following the Premier's reported association with the missing BHC scandal in which the Premier, despite being aided by the police, lost a battle to prevent information being disseminated to the public by the Gazette?

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      International news organisations censure Premier over his reduced contact with newspapers

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) — which defends press freedom throughout the Americas — said the decision to limit the flow of information from the Cabinet Office and Ministry of Tourism and Transport to the two newspapers was "an act of discrimination".

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