Media Autonomy Quotes
This statement demonstrates the transformation from the Communist era where the press was considered simply as another organ of the state. Before that, it was an instrument of the Czar. This is one of the world’s most firm statements of journalistic independence although recent Russian regimes have moved to limit journalistic independence.
She had started this newspapers after the premises of her last paper had been ransacked by rowdies insulted by the fact that she wrote of things that were considered private. In one instance a prominent slave owner who had business in town brought a slave servant who gave birth to a child in St. Cloud. The owner sent the mother and child to his Southern home and Swisshelm wrote an editorial and claimed he was a felon who kidnapped a child in Minnesota and transported her into slavery in the South.
The Prime Minister had castigated the London Times for printing details of secret negotiations between Britain and Louis Napoleon. The Editor replied:
The foreign influence to which he was referring was American influence. Almost a century later the issue of American influence on Canadian media was still being debated in Parliament as a major current problems.
