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Incidents in the United Kingdom, stage: pressure
Each incident is a dated action by a government, an official, a regulator, a court or a legislature that limited journalists' ability to gather or publish news.
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United Kingdom: Government requisitions newsprint and restricts rival newspapers during the 1926 General Strike
During the general strike called by the Trades Union Congress in May 1926, the British government requisitioned the country's available newsprint for its own newspaper, the British Gazette, and placed a provisional embargo on paper supplie…
Funding and ownership pressure · Stage Pressure · Head of government Stanley Baldwin · Ongoing
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