May 4: With rights come responsibilities. Letters to the editor on World Press Freedom Day 2019 GlobeDebate
The assassination of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi this year underscores the dangers some media members face around the world in doing their jobs.Letters to the Editor should be exclusive to The Globe and Mail. Include your name, address and daytime phone number. Try to keep letters to fewer than 150 words. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. To submit a letter by e-mail, click here:.....................................................................................................
– Ensure that what is recorded and reported by the press helps to add clarity and precision to the historical record that will be referenced in the future.History provides ample evidence that one of the first orders of business in the playbooks of despots and tyrants is to demean and then eliminate freedom of the press. .
There is enough media groupthink now without a further shrinkage of acceptable opinions due to potential government influences.A free press presupposes free thought. The Western world has more or less abandoned the concept. And the press has a huge responsibility for this. But when I was a spokesperson for a university medical centre and other large organizations, I sometimes was angered by reporters who would do anything to get a story.
Not one of these networks showed the entire incident. Each sliced and spliced a segment that represented its particular bias. Only by watching all three could I compile the complete view of the actual events. Killing or imprisoning journalists are effective ways of silencing the voices of a free press – although there are other approaches, too. In Australia, at least 36 editors, journalists and media groups are facing contempt charges, which potentially could see them imprisoned, fined or both. Their “crime” was not publishing the outcome of a court case, the conviction of a cardinal for child sex offenses, but publishing the fact that they could not publish this story.
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