Tindle Newspaper Group
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Tindle Newspapers Group publish over 200 local newspapers in the UK. Some of these titles are over 100 years old. They are based in Farnham, Surrey, and the Chief Executive, as at 2007, was Mr Brian Doel. The owner and managing director is Sir Ray Tindle
. Tindle Newspapers Group is a separate company to the Tindle Radio Group
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In 2003 as the Iraq War started, the owner of the Tindle Newspaper Group, Sir Ray Tindle, issued an order to his newspapers that they could no longer cover anti-war protests; "Everyone knows that Tindle family newspapers have no political bias. Our columns are free. When British troops come under fire, however, as now seems probable, I ask you to ensure that nothing appears in your newspapers which attacks the decision to conduct the war in which those men and women are involved, nor, of course, anything which attacks the troops themselves."
This decision was controversial and was attacked as censorship by a number of commentators. National Union of Journalists
General Secretary Jeremy Dear
replied: "So much for the right to know, free speech and all those other rights which our forefathers fought to establish and which Sir Ray Tindle seeks to demolish at the stroke of a pen....What makes his censorship better than the censorship of those he would seek to condemn? He merely confirms that freedom of the press really only belongs to those who own the press - the rest of us will be allowed to know only what they deem is suitable. Next stop tyranny?"
Ray Tindle
Sir Ray Tindle is a British newspaper and radio-station entrepreneur. He founded the Tindle Newspaper Group and the Tindle Radio Group....
. Tindle Newspapers Group is a separate company to the Tindle Radio Group
Tindle Radio Group
The Tindle Radio Group is a media company which owns stations in southern England, the Channel Islands and Republic of Ireland. It has its head office in Great Blakenham in Suffolk....
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In 2003 as the Iraq War started, the owner of the Tindle Newspaper Group, Sir Ray Tindle, issued an order to his newspapers that they could no longer cover anti-war protests; "Everyone knows that Tindle family newspapers have no political bias. Our columns are free. When British troops come under fire, however, as now seems probable, I ask you to ensure that nothing appears in your newspapers which attacks the decision to conduct the war in which those men and women are involved, nor, of course, anything which attacks the troops themselves."
This decision was controversial and was attacked as censorship by a number of commentators. National Union of Journalists
National Union of Journalists
The National Union of Journalists is a trade union for journalists in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. It was founded in 1907 and has 38,000 members. It is a member of the International Federation of Journalists .-Structure:...
General Secretary Jeremy Dear
Jeremy Dear
Jeremy Dear was the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists in Great Britain and Ireland, from 2001 to 2011.He has a reputation as one of the Awkward Squad of left-wing trade unionists. He is married to Paula Dear who is a journalist with the BBC. Jeremy Dear is a supporter of the...
replied: "So much for the right to know, free speech and all those other rights which our forefathers fought to establish and which Sir Ray Tindle seeks to demolish at the stroke of a pen....What makes his censorship better than the censorship of those he would seek to condemn? He merely confirms that freedom of the press really only belongs to those who own the press - the rest of us will be allowed to know only what they deem is suitable. Next stop tyranny?"