Celebrating World Press Freedom Day
May 3, 2008
Honestly, I’m totally underwhelmed by World Press Freedom Day—which at its heart certainly has good intentions. It’s just that every nation and society that seems to chime in about how wonderful the idea is, is only too willing to hypocritically forget about it once the day is over and continue planning to enjoy the Beijing Olympic games taking place in a country notorious for censoring Net access, silencing the press and voices of dissent.
Guy Berger wrote an interesting perspective piece on it over at the Mail & Guardian website. It’s worth a few minutes of reading and reflection.
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