MeToo in the media, Whitehall WhatsApps and deep-sea mining
The News Meeting
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The Cabinet Office's Decision to Disclose WhatsApp's
This is about a government and political culture seeking at the first, well, frankly, at every opportunity to resist disclosure. And I think on a personal level, from the perspective of a news consumer, I don't know if you can tell. This is a story that would get people really angry. It's a story about not being honest. But let me just kind of play the other side of it, which is what we are seeing is that every time the requirements of transparency put pressure on people in power to show their workings, they move to another environment. Now it turns out they exchange on WhatsApp. We're going to keep on having the same issue.
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