IS FREEDOM OF THE PRESS (OR FREDOM OF SPEECH THE DISINFECTANT FOR HOUNDING THE CITIZENRY IN THE NAME OF JOURNALISM? OR, SHOULD WE THANK SIR ALBERT MARGAI FOR THIS LEGACY?
"KILL OR FUR WHO JOMP E DAE'' There is no room for reckless journalism in SALONE: OBEY THE LAW or GO TO JAIL Read the very words of President Earnest Bai Koroma “If you go out there and enquire from the journalists, they’ll tell you that the freedom they are now enjoying has never been enjoyed by them over the years. Go out there and ask for my track record and my track record will tell you what this government stands for in terms of freedom of the press, in terms of even freedom to our political opponents. What is enjoyed now has never been enjoyed before. We are not saying that it’s a free country for journalists, we have the laws, and whatever are the laws we have to comply with them until the laws are changed. We’ll continue to give freedom to the journalists but we’ll also want to urge them to work within the framework of the existing laws.” In the early days of the APC, when people like Hon Eustace King, Dr. Monty Cole, the Former HE to the