Veteran journalists have grown tired over the past quarter-century, with the way annual international observance and celebration of journalists and journalism have been treated like a yearly one-sided ‘Hip-Hip Hooray’ over ‘Press Freedom’ that only dances to the same old song about what really constitutes ‘The Press’ and ‘Press Freedom’ today.
It’s also bled many like hearts, the way surviving influential Caribbean journalists of yore have so easily drifted with the new tidal wave (of Press Freedom) that’s more in accordance with post-World War II interpretations of the Role of The Press, than addressing the ongoing challenges facing journalists and journalism globally – and in a Caribbean region also grappling with finding itself after the ceremonial transition from colonialism to…
