In any war, there is a concealment of certain kinds of setbacks because it’s propaganda for the enemy. Kate Adie Read Quote
When you are covering a life-or-death struggle, as British reporters were in 1940, it is legitimate and right to go along with military censorship, and in fact in situations like that there wouldn’t be any press without the censorship. Kate Adie Read Quote
The better the information it has, the better democracy works. Silence and secrecy are never good for it. Kate Adie Read Quote
It wasn’t glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn’t merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought. Kate Adie Read Quote
I also read modern novels – I have just had to read 60 as I am one of the judges for the Orange Fiction Prize. Kate Adie Read Quote
But in the first Gulf war the United Kingdom was not under any threat from Iraq, and is still less so in the second one. Then there is no justification for obstructing freedom of information, particularly as nations have a right to know what their soldiers are being used for. Kate Adie Read Quote
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make. Kate Adie Read Quote
