Open AccessA genuinely free press?
Author(s) -
I. M. Ward
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
pacific journalism review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.308
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2324-2035
pISSN - 1023-9499
DOI - 10.24135/pjr.v6i1.679
Subject(s) - publishing , project commissioning , free press , government (linguistics) , political science , media studies , advertising , law , public relations , sociology , business , law and economics , linguistics , philosophy
Journalists need look again at the conventions and practices which conceal their reliance on information subsides from their audiences. A genuinely free and open press can only exist where readers can recognise where the hand of the government has helped in writing the news they read and watch.