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“EVERYONE hates a free press.” That was the best quote from a legendary journalist whom I admired. He was incarcerated for many years, labelled as a communist or worse, but he never wavered from the belief that a free press is the bedrock of any democracy.

Fast forward many years after his demise, and he would have been a dinosaur in the almost unrecognisable and unpredictable world of the media today. People are saying the so-labelled “mainstream media” is fast becoming an alternative one.

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Opinion , Tan Sri Johan Jaaffar , columnist

   

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