{"id":220,"date":"2009-12-16T20:52:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/?p=220"},"modified":"2009-12-16T20:52:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T19:52:05","slug":"libel-reform-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/12\/16\/libel-reform-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Libel Reform (again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to <a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/12\/14\/support-the-libel-reform-campaign-and-make-life-easier-for-the-jme-editors\/\">S\u00f8ren&#8217;s post<\/a> just below here, it&#8217;s worth noting that the site to which he links hosts not only a petition, but also a facility whereby it&#8217;ll check who your MP is, and provide a\u00a0<em>pro-forma<\/em> letter that you can edit and then email to him or her from the site. \u00a0I filled that in last week, and this morning got a letter from my MP, all-round-good-egg-if-you-ignore-the-Iraq-vote Gerald Kaufman, promising to sign the Early Day Motion in favour of reform. \u00a0It&#8217;s perhaps not much in its own terms, but it&#8217;s a sign that pressure is at least being noticed.<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to S\u00f8ren&#8217;s post just below here, it&#8217;s worth noting that the site to which he links hosts not only a petition, but also a facility whereby it&#8217;ll check who your MP is, and provide a\u00a0pro-forma letter that you can edit and then email to him or her from the site. \u00a0I filled that in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/2009\/12\/16\/libel-reform-again\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[511,577,472],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-resource","category-thinking-aloud"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-ethics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}