JOURNALISTS IN S.A.
Alarm At Police “Intimidation” (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) JOHANNESBURG, Oct 13The South African Society of Journalists issued a statement today expressing “alarm at what appears to be a pattern of intimidation to journalists and of a threat to the freedom of the press.” The statement said it was a matter for alarm that two journalists had been sent to prison for refusing to disclose sources of information demanded by the police. “Both Brian Parkes, a Johannesburg journalist, and Patrick Duncan, editor of ‘Contact’ have been imprisoned for refusing to disclose confidential sources of information,” it said. “It is well known to police and others that journalists would be betraying one of the basic principles of journalistic ethics all over the world—the determination not to dishonour a confidence—by disclosing such information given in confidence. “All journalists are well aware of their duties as citizens and obviously not responsible journalist would use this ‘unwritten law’ in order to condone a crime,” it said.'
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29336, 15 October 1960, Page 16
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