Friday 12 November 2021

Speaking truth to power can lead to loss of one's job, or liberty, or worse

The ICIJ has listed countries and territories from Honduras to Hong Kong where journalists have been put in jeopardy for exposing financial misdeeds. 

In this country, of course, the rich and powerful are less crude. But there is the legal cosh of the libel suit or the slimewash of a general denigration in the nation's "free press".


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