Published: November 26th 2010 - at 6:10 pm

Media warned over next WikiLeaks story


by Sunny Hundal    

WikiLeaks sent out this tweet about an hour ago.

UK Government has issued a ‘D-notice’ warning to all UK news editors, asking to be briefed on upcoming WikiLeaks stories

The next leak by WikiLeaks is expected to be a release of classified US files likely to cause international embarrassment and could damage some nations’ relations with the United States.

Reports in the media say say several countries including the UK, Canada, Turkey, Israel, Denmark and Norway have also been warned to expect potential embarrassment from the leaks.

There are five types of D-Notices. According to WikiLeaks, D-Notice 1 and D-Notice 5 (1 – Military operations, plans and capabilities; 5 – UK Security and Intelligence services and Special services) have been invoked.

D-Notice 5 states:

Information falling within the following categories is normally regarded as being highly classified. It is requested that such information, unless it has been the subject of an official announcement or has been widely disclosed or discussed, should not be published without first seeking advice

The Guardian’s Alan Rusbridger has just waded in:

Puzzled by DA Notice re #wikileaks. Overwhelming majority of t stuff not covered. “Safety + security of Brits” nothing to do w DNotice

The next dump of files is expected to be seven times larger than the massive batch of Iraq War logs.

Update According to Wikipedia:

D-Notices and DA-notices are merely a request and therefore not legally enforceable and consequently news editors can choose to ignore them without (in theory) official repercussions, although they are generally accepted by the media

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Reader comments


1. sally

I will remember that when some puffed up tory is telling me that we have a free press. When will the UK stop being a bag carrier for the US?

2. milgram

Wikileaks is not related to Wikipedia.

3. Sunny Hundal

Ooops – the type has been corrected – wrote it up in a hurry.

4. Cherub

Interesting…

This may reflect badly on New Labour. In fact I bet it will.

5. Mark Koszler

Ultimately with the internet and with the number of well established blogs around the traditional media are in danger of becoming irrelevant. The government can issue D notices to every mainstream media publisher but with the internet people can easily read news from other countries or pickup digests from blogs (like liberalconspiracy).

I find blogs and twitter to be an excellent source of information as you see stuff that if you only checked out the BBC you would never find. No doubt the BBC will only publish stories from wikileaks that serve the political wills of there masters in Tory and FibDem HQs.


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