Kate Adie Quotes
On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.
Sidhva, Shiraz. "Kate Adie: The Right to Know." The UNESCO Courier, July 2005.
This decision did not extend the right of privacy of patrons of public libraries as to what material they access.
The Green Party and The Socialist Party had combined in an alliance. This was their publication. In addition to showing that the right to know and freedom of information was a major issue in other industrial democracies as well as the United States, the quotation is particularly interesting because the title of the article was used over 200 years before by none other than the American patriot, Patrick Henry. See {60328}. The phrase has been used many times in many lands since.
Jefferson was visited by a famous German scientist who read a newspaper in the President's study which viciously attacked Jefferson. The scientist asked why this was allowed in America:
This was a decade before the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. You can imagine the distress of Vermonters when the U. S. Constitution was written with no provision for absolute freedom of speech which they had had for a over a decade. They would not ratify the U, S, Constitution without the understanding that there would be a Bill of Rights added with the First Amendment.
For a corroberating quote see Quotation 644762
Kathryn Adie CBE DL is an English journalist. She was Chief News Correspondent for BBC News between 1989 and 2003, during which time she reported from war zones around the world.
