Freetalk 4: Freedom of the Press
UPDATED VERSION. In today's Freetalk, I mentioned about the blatant editorialising of journalists' news stories in The NST. Incidentally, Rocky's Bru pointed who the butchered and the butcher in the newsroom are, respectively.
Look for the entry titled: BRENDA AND BRENDAN.
The source of the expose was Dr Mahathir himself, who mentioned Brenda's name twice.
Original posting:
Has the media become freer under the Pak Lah administration? Or is it pretty much the same old same old?
Well, within the 3-minute soundbyte boundary, we could only discuss the state of affairs in the three major English papers. The long and short of it is, if you still read the mainstream media, you get the papers you deserved.
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Tomorrow: "Clamp-down on bloggers?"
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Freedom of the Press was not intended to have some chartered entity called "The Press" who was Free. The intent was to have every person (note: not every citizen, every PERSON) Free to do as they will, both in Speech and using the Press.
Based on that definition, the question I would like to ask is:
the freer media we get is due to an 'easier access' (e.g broadband/mobile) of information or due to the current government policies? Another case of unintended consequences?
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August 10, 2006 03:17 PM