Cartoon news explains super injunction debate

Anyone struggling to get to grips with the complexities of the debate over gagging orders can thank those helpful people at Taiwanese animation company NMA TV for explaining the situation in their latest cartoon news blockbuster: Super Injunctions the 'scourge of journalists'?

After tackling such issues as the US and China's currency war and attempts to close down WikiLeaks the company has now turned its attention to the debate over media freedom in the UK, in a short film that features lycra-clad judges and MPs slugging it out over injunctions.

The voiceover explains that "philandering celebs" have found a new way to prevent allegations about their private lives being printed. To illustrate the concept a judge in a superman outfit appears from nowhere to protect a couple from the prying lenses of the paparazzi. He is then seen offering anonymity to 'perverts' and others in return for large amounts of cash.

A bang on the head from his gavel renders them invisible.

But the film notes that "critics say courts have overstepped their remit". At this point John Hemming, the Lib Dem MP who recently used Parliamentary privilege to unmask Sir Fred Goodwin, one of the recipients of a super injunction, enters the fray. He, too, is clad in a spandex body stocking, but his efforts in unmasking celebrities are cheered by members of the assembled press.

At the end of their 90-second romp through the issue the NMA website poses the sort of question that Clive Anderson, the barrister turned broadcaster, once grappled with. "Privacy and the right to know can be just a thin line apart, but still, where does the line lie? Whose line is it anyway?" ·