CENSORED, reads Herald Sun’s front page

On Thursday, December 13, a Melbourne-based paper, Herald Sun, had “CENSORED” splashed across its front-page. The subhead read: “The world is reading a very important story that is relevant to Victorians. The Herald Sun is prevented from publishing details of this significant news. But trust us. It’s a story you deserve to read.”

The story is about Cardinal George Pell, a Washinton Post report states. Pell, the report states, is “sometimes described as the third-most-powerful Vatican official” and “was convicted of all charges that he sexually molested two choirboys in Australia in the late 1990s”.

The report states that “a court-issued gag order intended to preserve impartiality” has forbidden news media from publishing news in Australia on the details of the Melbourne trial. Now, journalists, among others, are taking to Twitter to question such a gag in 2019.