The KT managing editor, Etheridge notes, “I’ve had advertisers pull their accounts due to our stories. This is why I have to work closely with the advertising department at our newspaper.”
At this point in the diwaniya, an important question was raised by the audience: “Anywhere worldwide--where does press freedom begin and where does it end?”
Etheridge replied that limits to Freedom of the Press should always depend on the local community, however, she added, “One should be able to criticize the government.”
On the one hand, Etheridge explains, “We should have enough transparency so that a government official provide us with information on government tenders and other important governmental activities” Censorship should not be carried out by withholding or even refusing to produce proper documentation.
On the other hand, Etheridge, who comes from Austin, Texas where she graduated from journalism school, notes that although she may agree that Hustler magazine has the right to be published, but such a magazine does not have the right—in her opinion—to be displayed and sold everywhere and in every community where her children can get their hands on the Hustler. Parents in every community should help a community determine what the limits on Freedom of the Press are to be. [She distinguishes between freedom of the press and the freedom of speech.]
KUWAIT’S HIGH LEVEL OF PRESS FREEDOM
According to Etheridge and most observers, Kuwait’s level of freedom of the press normally outshines that form of journalism experienced by readers in all other neighboring countries.
In addition to the 3 English language dailies, Kuwait has at least 8 other daily Arabic papers and most of them do better in terms of producing an open forum than do all the other newspapers in the neighboring countries, including Bahrain, Qatar and Emirates.
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