Shooting the Messenger - Fowler, Andrew
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Since 9/11 governments as diverse as the US, the UK, France and Australia have introduced tough legislation to intimidate the legitimate activities of a probing press, in such great need after the Iraq War proved that executive government could not be trusted. Through detailed research and analysis, this book, which includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Edward Snowden, explains how mass surveillance and anti-terror laws are of questionable value in defeating terrorism, but have had a 'chilling effect' on one of the foundations of democracy, revelatory journalism.

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Since 9/11 governments as diverse as the US, the UK, France and Australia have introduced tough legislation to intimidate the legitimate activities of a probing press, in such great need after the Iraq War proved that executive government could not be trusted. Through detailed research and analysis, this book, which includes interviews with leading figures in the field, including Edward Snowden, explains how mass surveillance and anti-terror laws are of questionable value in defeating terrorism, but have had a 'chilling effect' on one of the foundations of democracy, revelatory journalism.
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Andrew Fowler is an award-winning investigative journalist and a former reporter with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's (ABC) Foreign Correspondent and its premier investigative TV documentary programme, Four Corners. Andrew began his journalism career in the early 1970s, covering the IRA bombing campaign for the London Evening News. He first interviewed Julian Assange for Foreign Correspondent in early 2010 and went on to write the bestselling book, The Most Dangerous Man in the World (Melbourne University Press, 2011) which has been translated and published in countries as diverse as China, South Korea, the USA, Russia, Indonesia, Romania and Taiwan.