Freedom of the press: 2 journalists emprisoned
Two journalists wrote an article in a newspaper revealing someone in the national secret service leaked information on big criminal cases. It suggested the service was not doing their job properly and some of the cases they are handling were suffering. Since the journalists would not give up their sources, they were emprisoned.
Well, this could be happening in any undemocratic or uncivilized country of the world. But it happened in mine.
The association for journalists has filed complaints and lawsuits against the secret service.
The newspaper in question has started a window action: the front page states : " Free them!!"
Our government leaders are outraged (well if you read my earlier post you can understand why I do not value this too much).
The debate has started again: freedom of press or giving up sources for the greater good?
I cannot see how this helps anything. These journalists are emprisoned, even if they give up the source, the consequences for future revelations are huge. They will not do that for sure. Here, I want to show mu support for these journalists:
FREE THEM!!!
Well, this could be happening in any undemocratic or uncivilized country of the world. But it happened in mine.
The association for journalists has filed complaints and lawsuits against the secret service.
The newspaper in question has started a window action: the front page states : " Free them!!"
Our government leaders are outraged (well if you read my earlier post you can understand why I do not value this too much).
The debate has started again: freedom of press or giving up sources for the greater good?
I cannot see how this helps anything. These journalists are emprisoned, even if they give up the source, the consequences for future revelations are huge. They will not do that for sure. Here, I want to show mu support for these journalists:
FREE THEM!!!
posted by Floor @ 1:32 AM
1 Comments:
At 2:20 AM ,
Aly said...
Hey Floor....'ve spot your blog ;)
well, concerning Freedom, I believe that this term is so huge that it oftenly gets misconcepted, specially in Press (for me coming from Egypt, it's widely believed that we're missing that), but actually a lot of people are using it in a wrong way, so for example if those journalists can't provide an evidence for what's happened, this leads to a high probabilty that they're simply liars, and may be throughing such rumours can get a lot of people in troubles......the same in Egypt, except that rumours space is much bigger, but I remember couple of years ago, when there was a huge article about a fraud incident by one minister and as evidences have been presented by the journalist, the guy was kicked out of the government and currently still under investigation.
So, simply my point is Press Freedom means you can say whatever you want as long as you can support it with evidence.
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