All over the world journalists of the Doha-based Al Jazeera news channel staged protests yesterday over a controversial media report suggesting that US President George W. Bush sought to bomb the channel's headquarters. Read more.
It is time, tough questions were asked and answered by both sides !
Just a reminder to people high up - who make the tough choices. "Information is the currency of democracy." Thomas Jefferson, US President (1743-1826).
However we have Al-Jazeera asking the tough questions and with other media organizations picking up the story, we haven't heard the last of it. Read More The urgency with which the UK government ordered Britain's Daily Mirror newspaper to cease publishing further details from an allegedly top secret memo revealing that US President George Bush wanted to bomb Aljazeera does not go well to prove their innocence.
What ever said and done - let us remember the journalists and other media personnel who have laid down their lives defending the free flow of vital information.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment