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May 9th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has organized the rally in cooperation with campaign groups including Hacked Off and Rally for Media Reform.
NUJ said several senior politicians including Deputy leader of the Labour party Harriet Harman will be present at the rally.
The public rally at Westminster Central Hall will focus on providing a definition for a democratic and accountable media.
The rally is timed to coincide with the Leveson Inquiry’s examination of the relationship between press and politicians and the upcoming debate on Communications green paper.
The green paper has been dubbed a censor’s charter as it proposes that anyone using the internet in Britain should be prevented from seeing websites, which according to major corporate rights-holders, host their copy-righted material without a license.
This comes as British media revealed on Wednesday the close connection between Prime Minister David Cameron and one of the most controversial figures in the phone-hacking scandal, former News International chief executive Rebekah Brooks who resigned over the hacking practices in the now-closed paper News of the World.
NUJ has been deeply involved with the phone-hacking scandal and the government-led Leveson inquiry into the issue.
NUJ’s general secretary Michelle Stanistreet told the inquirers earlier this year that newspaper managers are bullying jo
urnalists to deliver their stories at all costs.
“The range of issues the journalists have raised with me include, but are not restricted to – endemic bullying, huge pressure to deliver stories, overwhelming commercial pressures which are allowed to dictate what is published and the overweening power and control of editors over their journalists and of employers over their editors,” she said back in February.
Stanistreet added at the time that the practice forces journalists fearful for their current or future jobs are “terrified about being identified” in open hearing sessions in courts despite the fact that they “have witnessed first-hand unethical behavior” at their work place.
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