Will Kevin Myers Be Jailed Without a Voice Raised to Save Free Speech? ; the Mary Ellen Synon Column
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NOT an honourable list for us to join: Zimbabwe, Russia, China, Cuba, Turkey, Egypt, Burma, Ethiopia - piquant, that one, I'll come back to it in a minute - Iran, Tunisia, and Ireland. But there we are, tucked up with the sort of countries that imprison journalists for writing opinions which fail to match the orthodoxy of the ruling caste.
Shaming stuff. But most shaming of all is that the journalists in this country, at least the ones who are not at the moment facing prison for what they write, don't seem to care. What is it with them, hubris, arrogance, or intellectual laziness? Maybe all three.See the full content of this document
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Will Kevin Myers Be Jailed Without a Voice Raised to Save Free Speech? ; the Mary Ellen Synon Column
I am referring, of course - or maybe not 'of course', the affair has had so little cov-erage in the press and broadcasting that perhaps you are not aware of it - I am referring to the attempt by the chief exec-utive of something called the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI) to get the gardai to launch a criminal investigation into the journalist, Kevin Myers. Or...
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