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If free press means Temesegen's way I would rather prefer being ignorant of everything. Informing the public is not inciting crisis for political benefits. Temesgen published a series of blatantly unbalanced articles on his weekly “Fetih” news paper to wage his unsubstantiated propaganda campaign against the government. When all these failed to attain the targeted objective of provoking the public he again compiled all of them and dispatched in a book form. On my view, Temesgen should not have been tolerated so far as his articles are highly politically motivated and routinely baseless propaganda materials. It needs one to read few lines from his articles where Temesgen stands and what his ultimate objectives are. Instead of waging baseless propaganda in his futile effort to induce societal crisis, he could have used his weekly to constructively criticize the government for the benefit of the public and the free press itself.
#1 Posted by Ewnetu Ashenafi, CJR on Sun 26 Aug 2012 at 04:13 AM