Freedom House International: The constitution provides for freedom of speech and of the press, and media are generally allowed to operate without interference. Several independent newspapers operate freely, including the daily Stabroek News and Kaieteur News. The state owns and operates the country’s sole radio station, which broadcasts on three frequencies.
A reporter’s duty is to report the news factually and without bias. Any report in which a political slant is detected is activism and the writer should not be accredited by any respectable journalistic association. Such persons should confine their advocacy to opinion columns. Only recently there was the full page ad in the newspapers where they labeled JAGDEO – SELFISH AND SHAMELESS’ and this went unpunished.
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