Know What is Happening Around You

The press today is an army with carefully organized weapons, the journalists its officers, the readers its soldiers. But, as in every army, the soldier obeys blindly, and the war aims and operating plans change without his knowledge. The reader neither knows nor is supposed to know the purposes for which he is used and the role he is to play. There is no more appalling caricature of freedom of thought. Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to want to think, and this they consider freedom.

Wednesday, July 21, 2010

Dr. Sikua Wins Deformation Case agains Islands Sun Newspaper

Prime Minister Derek Sikua has won a defamation case he lodged against the Island Sun Newspaper at the High Court. Dr Sikua and his Secretary Jeremiah Manele lodged the claim which arose from an official visit by the Prime Minister to the 63rd United Nations General Assembly Meeting held in New York from 22nd September to the 1st of October 2008. Jeremiah Manele was at the time Secretary to the Prime Minister and a part of the Solomon Islands delegation. The Island Sun Newspaper published on the 8th and 9th of October 2008, an article, an editorial and a cartoon depicting Dr Sikua and Mr Manele as behaving in a drunken manner during the visit. They said the Prime Minister was drunk, threatened his wife with violence and because he was drunk and missed a speech by the then Australian Prime Minister. The Island Sun Newspaper maintained that they had their sources, but during the trial the two witnesses

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