DVD Release - Press Freedom: Collateral Damage

Press Freedom: Collateral Damage is now available in high resolution on DVD for £4 (P&P £1).

The NUJ-funded docu-short tackles the increasing problems for journalists covering political protest, particularly the evermore presence of surveillance by police Forward Intelligence Teams (FIT Squads) used against photographers and video journalists documenting dissent.

The film asks the question; what happens to the data gathered?

But also it documents a catalogue of police power abuse, twists in uses of law, threats, intimidation and leads inevitably to violence.

A web page has also been setup to promote the film, but also to start tackling the issue of increasing restrictions of press freedom in the UK, especially as we start to see the 2008 Counter Terrorism Act slowly slip its way into being, which seems to start to look more like a war on journalism, not terrorism.


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