Media Bill: what next?

Friday, August 15, 2008

The Media Practitioners Bill casts the spotlight on that ever elusive place between the compulsion of government to have its way as it governs, and the insistence of citizens on their right to have the final say in all matters pertaining to their right to information.

Government will be represented in the person of the Minister of Science, Technology and Communications, whilst the profession of journalism will represent the citizens.

The dialogue between the two is conditioned by the history of the development of the fragile democracy that has been rather generously described as 'liberal'.

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