WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2013

Today is being celebrated as World Press Freedom Day
and the International Federation of Journalists is marking it by
focusing on the issue of 'Journalist Safety and Journalists Imprisoned
Around the World'. Locally, we asked a group of persons in media to say
in 20 words what press free-dom means to them. They said:

1. The fact that someone who annoys the hell out of you can be on talk radio every day, the fact that government ministers call your boss to complain about what you said on radio instead of locking you up or getting you fired, are two examples of our gloriously free press that many of us take for granted. I don't.

- Dionne Jackson Miller - journalist

2. Press freedom must be guaranteed in all circumstances. This applies not only to the role of the State, but to that of corporate interests as well.

- Earl Moxam - journalist

3. Media freedom is to the development of a free and democratic society what oxygen is to a human being.

- Cliff Hughes - broadcast journalist/entrepreneur