Free press

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This piggybacks a post from an uncredited LJ'er. Uncredited because the post was locked. But feel free to claim credit.

Back reference: mr brown column from 30 June: http://www.todayonline.com/articles/127762.asp
3 July response from K Bhavani, Press Secretary to the Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA): http://www.

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I forgot this quote from Nicholas Kristof's column yesterday in the New York Times, speaking on the role of the press: "Watchdogs can be mean, dumb and obnoxious, but it would be even more dangerous to trade them in for lap dogs."

[msbrightside]

Very nice analysis re: being a constructive critic.

And it's so easy to imagine a caricature of a pissed-off bureaucrat, all but apopletic with rage, spitting out the phrase "p-p-partisan p-p-player in p-p-p-p-politics".