Cormactopia Prime wrote:When no defender agrees with Glen, but Souls does, I think it's fairly easy to see whose agenda Glen's article served -- besides, of course, his own.
....eh?
Cormactopia Prime wrote:Out of curiosity, whose decision was it to let Glen use the Southern Journal, TSP's official regional newspaper, as a propaganda platform against his political enemies in TSP? It's a bit odd to see the region's newspaper bashing and smearing the region's own elected Cabinet and implying they're subversive userites.
The Southern Journal is principally run by the Ministry of Regional Affairs, but has a long tradition of not having government-approved/government-sanctioned/government-dictated content, in the interest of better and more independent journalism. It's right there in the introduction:
Southern Journal wrote:Southern Journal is a newspaper owned and operated by the South Pacific Ministry of Regional Affairs. It was established to provide the South Pacific with detailed and objective news on regional events, to present a diverse range of opinions regarding issues of public interest and to hold government officials accountable to the public.
Our only agenda is information and transparency, which is why our government ownership does not preclude us from publishing articles or opinion columns critical of the government. We provide an outlet for different citizens to make their case and for the people of the South Pacific to know what happens in their region.
And you can see this in action — this latest release is quite critical of two Cabinet members (Tim and myself).