By AMOS CHANDAON Monday, May 3, 2021, I was invited to attend the 2021 World Press Freedom Day commemoration at the Freedom Statue in Lusaka.With compelling nostalgia, I wondered down memory lane into my media advocacy days and looked back with considerable satisfaction at the evolution of media freedoms and the subsequent explosion of diversity media ownership that has emerged since 1991.This diversity itself has birthed the inviolability of freedom of speech.From the various speeches I heard, I was attracted to one line the guest of honour, President Edgar Lungu made to the effect that we are in an era where the journalist does not exist to harm the state and conversely does the state exist to harm the journalist.On this great day for journalists, I made a dialectical reflection on the very idea of freedom and order.Having worked for a considerable time on both sides: government and media industry, I have a fairly good […]
DICHOTOMY OF FREEDOM & ORDER
