Asia's Press Moves From Shackled to Free
When I first came to Southeast Asia more years ago than I care to admit, the idea of free give-and-take in the media was a custom honored more in the breach than in the observance, to paraphrase Shakespeare.
Throughout the region, the press was hampered by authoritarian rule and the dictates of a parochial nationalism that by and large made it impossible…
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