Aidan White Quotations

Media organizations and journalists' families face a wall of silence and an unfeeling bureaucracy that refuses to give clear and credible answers to questions.

There is a great deal of concern that there is a fundamentalist religiosity emerging that is demanding that we suspend our right to free expression.

Here is a Government desperate to avoid the spotlight of public concern over deeply embarrassing revelations of corruption in high places.

There is an intolerable denial of basic rights here,

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom. It is an unspeakable affront to democracy when a government turns to violence to stifle the voice of its media critics.

What we have seen is a brutal and violent assault on press freedom.

When the world's leading democracy scorns the notion of justice for the victims of violence in its jurisdiction, it gives confidence to those who target journalists in countries where freedom hardly exists.

While there are still questions to be answered in 19 cases, the US at the very least should now give serious thought to an agreed formula for cooperation with media and journalists in the field, particularly in conflict situations.

There can be no press freedom when journalists exist in conditions of corruption, poverty and fear.

We are asking the government to intervene on behalf of all Canadians. CBC should be providing local programming that caters to the country's different communities rather than abandoning its public service mandate by getting foreign news and entertainment shows to fill the gaps in its service.

This is a vicious witch-hunt aimed at crushing the voice of dissent.

At a time when editorial independence needs to be defended, we find the closure of this newspaper shocking.

No. That is not what I heard him say.

The Tunisian authorities continue to show intolerance of independent opinion and free expression. But they are seriously mistaken if they think this will discourage journalists from expressing their solidarity with colleagues in Tunisia.

The US authorities should reveal what, if anything, he is charged with or free him immediately.

In a democracy you do not have hooded men carrying assault rifles breaking into the offices of a newspaper and a television station in the middle of the night and beating up journalists and other staff. To talk of press freedom in such circumstances is grotesque.

Iraqi reporters and foreign correspondents have suffered heavily in this conflict,

The fight for media freedom and democracy does not take place in one country,

The media community is determined to create a meaningful dialogue that will improve understanding between communities, that will reduce tension and that will enhance the quality of journalism on all sides.