PACJA Celebrates Word Press Day 2022

In my many years of being active in the civil society, I have come to appreciate the place of the media in the good of the society despite the many challenges they face including sometimes intimidation, violence, lack of access to information for the media and the expression of critical or opposing viewpoints and the debilitating excessive political, legal and extra-legal constraints.

Further, I can rightly say that the Media has and continues in its functions to inform, educate, and to propagate useful information that the society uses to advance itself.

In addition, the media are without doubt the most appropriate outlets in gauging public opinion.

As a member of the CSO, I have been at fore front to encourage the media to establish media

systems that respond to the people’s needs and their rights to communicate and to participate in information generation and dissemination.

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