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06-12-2013

THE GUARDIAN vs THE DAILY MAIL: PRIVACY OR SECURITY?

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From politics to the media-world: “fights” on Snowden’s revelations are spreading all around. That’s what is happening in the UK in the last couple of months, where a kind of a quarrel came up between the right-winger headline The Daily Mail and the politically independent The Guardian. At the same time the GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters) was dragged to the dock by Snowden’s revelations published on The Guardian accusing the agency of having supported US espionage activities by controlling Italian government and its citizen’s communications, The Daily Mail began a harsh campaign against The Guardian guilty of providing a handbook to potential terrorists willing to harm Great Britain. In an ironic drawing, The Daily Mail pictured a newspaper seller handing out a copy of The Guardian to a man wearing a balaclava and, on the newspaper table, an advertisement says: “The Guardian – Secrets of MI5 and CGHQ – read all about it”. On its side, The Guardian has received support from many international headline editors asserting that what The Guardian has been doing is a clear expression of democracy end a clear example of freedom of speech and expression principle.

The quarrel between The Guardian and The Daily Mail is not about democracy itself of course, but it is actually related to a particular issue: privacy or security, which comes first? Such a quarrel pics the very heart of this issue that divides people claiming that national security should be the highest priority and those who believe that privacy stands as one of the fundamental individual rights. The “truth” is probably to be found in the middle but it’s actually easy to move toward one of the two extremes; and it’s quite clear what way has been taken by British secret services.

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