What is relationship between journalists Access to Government Information and combating corruption?
The more access to government information, the more potential for combating corruption. I say “potential” because you need to have a minimum number of competitive media trying to get “the scoop” — without that diversity, it’s too easy for a very few media to “get in bed with the government” and participate in concealing information which threatens the “powers that be.” The other thing is, media need to strive to reduce their dependency on the government, even if that makes their life more difficult. The most common kind of dependency is a subsidy (rent-free space, or a tax break); once a medium benefits from such a subsidy, the threat of its withdrawal is often enough to squelch a potentially important, corruption-revealing story. Q [IRC Cairo]: Dear Mr. ERIC. WHAT ABOUT FREEDOM OF INFORMATION DAY? – ALI A: The “day of this” and the “day of that” are great hooks to try to use to get local media to try to give some attention to how important freedom of (access to) information is, in al
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