Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

Press freedom — many preach it and many try hard

to really promote the concept but very few news

organizations are really able to actually practise it in the real,

transparent, non-negotiable sense of the term. In most

instances there is the element of compromise — of having to

sacrifice editorial integrity to satisfy established vested

interests.

Earlier this week on Sunday, May 3, World Press

Freedom Day was celebrated though it was muted in many

places where press freedom is an anathema to the powers that

be. The celebration highlights the fact that, unless there is

unhindered access to accurate information, the value of all

other rights is diminished; especially so when we now live in

the so-called information age where the access to information

is vital to navigate our way successfully and achieve our

objectives. Managed news is no substitute for the real thing.

This key access to information is further accentuated by

access to information and communication technology.

News organizations have a major role to convey the

events taking place as well as the decisions made by the

powers that be in their own countries and around the world

to the man in the street. And the man in the street who equips

himself with the latest key bits and bytes of information has

an edge over his uninformed neighbour and is always able to

make the better or the right decision — be it business or

personal.

Internet: bt.com.bn (adapted)

he search for the meaning of life is often hampered

by the assumption that there is a single meaning of life for

everyone everywhere. We try to find happiness and meaning

in the same thing that affect others. We follow well worn

paths and then are surprised to find that we end up the same

place as everyone else that has followed that path. Instead,

we must find the meaning of our own lives individually.

Yet there is still wisdom in those who have gone

before and the key to discover the meaning of your life often

falls in those in between places where you are following your

own path, but using the tools of others to do so.

The first of these tools is the understanding that life

is a journey, not a destination. You may never completely

understand why you exist or what you were meant to do. This

is why you must remember that your life is not made up of

the big moments, but of the small moments in between.

Find meaning in those and you will be on the path to

understanding the meaning of life.

If the meaning of life is individual, then

understanding yourself and being yourself is vital to

understanding the meaning of life. When you hide yourself

from others, you hide from yourself as well. When you fail

to follow the path that you know is right for the one that is

safer, you lose yourself.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far

more than our abilities. You choose the meaning or

meaninglessness of your life in the decisions you make every

day. A life lived well or a life hardly lived. Understand that

the choices are yours and that the choices matter. Without

that understanding, finding meaning in your life will be

impossible.

Internet: www.helium.com (adapted).

he search for the meaning of life is often hampered

by the assumption that there is a single meaning of life for

everyone everywhere. We try to find happiness and meaning

in the same thing that affect others. We follow well worn

paths and then are surprised to find that we end up the same

place as everyone else that has followed that path. Instead,

we must find the meaning of our own lives individually.

Yet there is still wisdom in those who have gone

before and the key to discover the meaning of your life often

falls in those in between places where you are following your

own path, but using the tools of others to do so.

The first of these tools is the understanding that life

is a journey, not a destination. You may never completely

understand why you exist or what you were meant to do. This

is why you must remember that your life is not made up of

the big moments, but of the small moments in between.

Find meaning in those and you will be on the path to

understanding the meaning of life.

If the meaning of life is individual, then

understanding yourself and being yourself is vital to

understanding the meaning of life. When you hide yourself

from others, you hide from yourself as well. When you fail

to follow the path that you know is right for the one that is

safer, you lose yourself.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far

more than our abilities. You choose the meaning or

meaninglessness of your life in the decisions you make every

day. A life lived well or a life hardly lived. Understand that

the choices are yours and that the choices matter. Without

that understanding, finding meaning in your life will be

impossible.

Internet: www.helium.com (adapted).

he search for the meaning of life is often hampered

by the assumption that there is a single meaning of life for

everyone everywhere. We try to find happiness and meaning

in the same thing that affect others. We follow well worn

paths and then are surprised to find that we end up the same

place as everyone else that has followed that path. Instead,

we must find the meaning of our own lives individually.

Yet there is still wisdom in those who have gone

before and the key to discover the meaning of your life often

falls in those in between places where you are following your

own path, but using the tools of others to do so.

The first of these tools is the understanding that life

is a journey, not a destination. You may never completely

understand why you exist or what you were meant to do. This

is why you must remember that your life is not made up of

the big moments, but of the small moments in between.

Find meaning in those and you will be on the path to

understanding the meaning of life.

If the meaning of life is individual, then

understanding yourself and being yourself is vital to

understanding the meaning of life. When you hide yourself

from others, you hide from yourself as well. When you fail

to follow the path that you know is right for the one that is

safer, you lose yourself.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far

more than our abilities. You choose the meaning or

meaninglessness of your life in the decisions you make every

day. A life lived well or a life hardly lived. Understand that

the choices are yours and that the choices matter. Without

that understanding, finding meaning in your life will be

impossible.

Internet: www.helium.com (adapted).

he search for the meaning of life is often hampered

by the assumption that there is a single meaning of life for

everyone everywhere. We try to find happiness and meaning

in the same thing that affect others. We follow well worn

paths and then are surprised to find that we end up the same

place as everyone else that has followed that path. Instead,

we must find the meaning of our own lives individually.

Yet there is still wisdom in those who have gone

before and the key to discover the meaning of your life often

falls in those in between places where you are following your

own path, but using the tools of others to do so.

The first of these tools is the understanding that life

is a journey, not a destination. You may never completely

understand why you exist or what you were meant to do. This

is why you must remember that your life is not made up of

the big moments, but of the small moments in between.

Find meaning in those and you will be on the path to

understanding the meaning of life.

If the meaning of life is individual, then

understanding yourself and being yourself is vital to

understanding the meaning of life. When you hide yourself

from others, you hide from yourself as well. When you fail

to follow the path that you know is right for the one that is

safer, you lose yourself.

It is our choices that show what we truly are, far

more than our abilities. You choose the meaning or

meaninglessness of your life in the decisions you make every

day. A life lived well or a life hardly lived. Understand that

the choices are yours and that the choices matter. Without

that understanding, finding meaning in your life will be

impossible.

Internet: www.helium.com (adapted).