Like dogs and cats, snakes and rats, journalists and the government are not supposed to be friends.
It is always going to be a fractious, difficult relationship. We, the voters and taxpayers, grant politicians enormous power and resources to run the government on our behalf. The media’s job is to make sure they do it responsibly and ethically.
As the American newspaper baron William Randolph Hearst reportedly once said, “news is whatever someone doesn’t want printed; all else is advertising”.
The natural order of things
requires there to be a necessary tension between those two institutions. But mutual hostility isn’t necessarily always a good thing.
Australian journalist s arrest in China causes concern shanghainews.net - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from shanghainews.net Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Australian journalist Cheng Lei s arrest in China causes concern ANI | Updated: Feb 09, 2021 12:28 IST
Hong Kong, February 9 (ANI): Former colleagues and press freedom advocates have expressed concern for the well-being of Chinese-Australian journalist Cheng Lei who was arrested on Friday on suspicion of supplying state secrets by China, reported South China Morning Post.
Eric Olander, who worked with her in Singapore in 2003, said it was heartbreaking to see what she s now having to endure .
Tech podcaster Elliott Zaagman, who once shared an apartment building with Cheng and appeared on her show, said her arrest hit very close to home among the expatriate community in Beijing.
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Press freedom reforms welcomed, but more needed say media companies
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Law enforcement agencies will need a warrant from a Supreme or Federal Court judge before raiding journalists under a range of press freedom reforms agreed to by the Morrison government.
Attorney-General Christian Porter said the government would adopt all 16 recommendations made by the Parliament s intelligence and security committee, following its inquiry into the impact of law enforcement powers on the freedom of the press.