The Italian-born English poet Humbert Wolfe described the press of his day in the following terms:
”You cannot hope to bribe or twist,Thank God! The British journalist.
But seeing what the man will do
Unbribed, there’s no occasion to.”Things have only got worse in this matter in the eighty-odd years since these words were written, and they have probably got worse in many more places. And so the age-old dilemma between freedom of expression – including the essential requirement in democracy to have free and vibrant mass media – and any form of accountability to society and the public at large, has become at once more complex and more urgent.
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