African journalists have succeeded in actually creating a new form of journalism that combines their regular news reporting with some sort of human rights advocacy. |
Journalists have become extremely important democracy advocates and they will have impact beyond actually what we will see today. |
Today we have a case in which African journalists -- Liberian-born journalists -- are being accused of the same charge: espionage. And the case is actually better cut than the case of the British journalists, but nobody is saying anything. |