On the advice of its legal counsel, an in-depth story in today’s old tree version of the New York Times has been held off NYTimes.com. The story maps out the mounting evidence against the suspected terrorists arrested in Britain, and as a result, it may break British law prohibiting “publication of the information that could be deemed prejudicial to defendants charged with a crime.” Appropriately, the Times publicly disclosed why it made the decision, but it raises interesting issues of how online journalism occasionally must take foreign laws into account.
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