Media Free: Mind Slave

context: World Press Freedom Day

Journalists all over the world celebrated the World Press Freedom today as the 3 May has been universally adopted as the day for media people to observe. The universalization of the press freedom day definitely does contain a message: to ensure the free flow of fair, accurate and unbiased information to the people. Press freedom is people’s right to be engaged in communication about the issues and events that concern them.

Empowerment has become a catchword for politicians and media people to reiterate these days. This actually means making people informed about their human rights and enabling them to take up challenges. Perhaps most analysts and critics do understand press freedom from this perspective. However, conflicts of interests naturally keep on going. Hence the need for exercising over the concept of press freedom.

Understanding Press Freedom

As far as press freedom ideals are concerned, remembering Adlai E. Stevenson’s quote would be worth remembering: The free press is the mother of all our liberties and of our progress under liberty. Another democratic definition of press freedom comes from Benjamin Disraeli: The press is not only free, it is powerful. That power is ours. It is the proudest that man can enjoy.

 Practices

Global media and human rights reports have already confirmed that more than 174 journalists have already been killed in Iraq since the US invasion there. We have no more information about the latest killings there and elsewhere. This shows how endangered press freedom is.

In many countries, misuse of press freedom has become a serious problem. Especially in ......

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