A Bangladeshi newsman reflects on demands of the profession and the need for continuing education
000000000000Looking at photos of the candle-lit peace march in Kuala Lumpur on Sept 27 with a restrained police force on the side, and reported in bits by the mainstream media, I am optimistic that the ISA, Printing Presses and Publications Act and sedition laws that stifle our journalistic work may be amended or at best repealed in good time. But to achieve what now seem like impossibilities, we need a robustly critical and transparent media to sustain the reformasi spirit.
0000000Dire consequences arise when the media – like our MSM - become singularly pro-government, anti-opposition and, I suppose, anti-journalism.
0World politics have shown that the potential for democratically-elected prime ministers or presidents to become dictators is greater in governments of unlimited terms.
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