To be honest from what I've seen of the DCMF (and I work in the media too) is that they have done surprisingly little to help out the local media. Fine they have done lots to help out international journalists, but a press conference last month was the only thing they have done to actually "remedy" the situation. I personally find Robert Menard, their director, very strange, as he seems incapable of answering any questions that were posed to him.
As regards this whole criticism thing, well in England, politicians and the royal family are criticised any time they do anything that is deemed to be inappropriate. The thing is we can't talk too indepth about certian issues. I don't think Islam is based in tradition too much - i think it's just that people make it too traditional. So i'm unsure whether it really is this whole Islam thing really standing in the way.
What I do feel it is, is a social aspect, where there is a certain element of being unable to criticise the way that things are run here (and I am aware of one colleague who has been arrested for some articles he wrote on labourers being chucked out of malls)...
Right now I'm just not confident about this whole system here - which is why i am really wishing to return home to get back to real journalism.
To be honest from what I've seen of the DCMF (and I work in the media too) is that they have done surprisingly little to help out the local media. Fine they have done lots to help out international journalists, but a press conference last month was the only thing they have done to actually "remedy" the situation. I personally find Robert Menard, their director, very strange, as he seems incapable of answering any questions that were posed to him.
As regards this whole criticism thing, well in England, politicians and the royal family are criticised any time they do anything that is deemed to be inappropriate. The thing is we can't talk too indepth about certian issues. I don't think Islam is based in tradition too much - i think it's just that people make it too traditional. So i'm unsure whether it really is this whole Islam thing really standing in the way.
What I do feel it is, is a social aspect, where there is a certain element of being unable to criticise the way that things are run here (and I am aware of one colleague who has been arrested for some articles he wrote on labourers being chucked out of malls)...
Right now I'm just not confident about this whole system here - which is why i am really wishing to return home to get back to real journalism.