Media

As i write these words on May 3,World press Freedom day.Iam reminded that 12 journalists have been killed just that year,according to the committe to project journalists a New-York based independent non-profit organisation.All over the worlds journalists are jailed,attacked and harrased every day.
Throughout the world ,world press Freedom Day observed on May 3,serves as an occasion to inform the public of violations of the right freedom of expression and as reminder that many journalists brave death or jail to bring people their daily news .Freedom of the press is the mortar that binds to gether the bricks of freedom-and it is so also the open window embedded in those bricks through which we can all see the world.
The day marks the anniversery of declaration of windhoek,a statement of principles drawn up by African journalists calling for a free,independent and plurastic meida in their continent and throughout the world.the decleration adopted in 1991 at a seminaar organised by the United nations and UNESCO in windhoek,Nambia,affirms that a free press is essential to the existance of democracy and fundemental human goal.
A free press is one of the most essential componets of democratic society.And there is no longer any serious debate about the propositons that democracy is essential for social and economic devolopment.