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U.K. Twitter Campaign Helps Curb Gag on Press

Paul Sonne, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on October 14, 2009 at 8:00 am PT

A Twitter campaign that rippled through the U.K. Tuesday helped to induce an about-face on a legal injunction that was preventing the Guardian newspaper from reporting on a public parliamentary proceeding. Bloggers and Twitter users, led by Guardian Editor Alan Rusbridger, expressed indignation about a court injunction that called into question the British newspaper’s right to report on a parliamentary debate.