Comments on: Appreciate what journalists stand for

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 19:09:39 +0000

In 2008 I authored an article in the Arizona Republic about World Press Freedom Day. This day should be as important as Thanksgiving or Mother’s Day, yet few people know about it. Who will help me celebrate this year? Bet not even the Republic will cover it. http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/press/

Foreign journalist can go to jail for using Internet not authorized by the “state” in Cuba.

Fighting for freedom of the press goes on today. To call yourself a PR practitioner, you must know journalism, and part of journalism education is studying its history, including John Peter Zenger. Blood has flowed in streets from thousand fighting for freedom of the press. Idi Amin slaughtered thousands in Uganda for it. It was the basis of the Tiananmen Square (天安門廣場) clash of 1989. “According to initial reports from the Chinese Red Cross, there were 2,600 casualties,” Wikipedia stated.

If that is not fighting for freedom of the press, what is? Yet, 20 years later, China does not have a free press.

By: Kathy Kerchner

Kathy Kerchner — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:56:19 +0000

Angelo, I whole heartedly agree. And I fear that as journalists become fewer and fewer, we will lose our most important watchdogs.

By: Rebecca I. Allen

Rebecca I. Allen — Fri, 16 Jan 2009 17:51:12 +0000

Well said!
on behalf of fellow journos worldwide- thank you.

By: tyler Hurst

tyler Hurst — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 20:10:48 +0000

Freedom is worth dying for.

If these countries wanted freedom bad enough, they’d get it. They do not and that’s why they allow themselves to be controlled.

I am quite thankful for my freedoms, but journalists EXERCISE that right, they don’t fight for it (well, most of them).