Sunday, February 15, 2009

Off With Her Head!

That's what the Queen orders in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland when Alice displeases her. Like Alice, journalists traditionally have risked death, imprisonment, fines for trying to report what they see. Each nation has its own press laws, growing out of the nation's political, economic and cultural heritage. We will be discussing comparative media systems this week -- just when a draft for new press laws in the Emirates is in the news. Take a look at Spelling out freedoms of the press in The National today to see what people are thinking. What do you think about press laws?

1 comment:

Shamma Eid said...

This is so frustrating! Our country should allow us to express ourselves and our opinions. How can we move forward if the country isn't allowing its citizens to speak up? We are under enough restrictions as it is. The government should accept criticisms and be open to change.
The fact that our government has strict laws (such as paying fines for criticising), says something about it. Is it hiding something? Does it know that it's doing something worth criticising?
Maybe one of the reasons that we are still a developing country is because we have such laws.