Rights and Responsibilities of Ecuador's Media

Rights and Responsibilities of Ecuador's Media

From the beginning, of time journalists and elected officials in democratic societies have had painful and interdependent relationships. It is the nature of democracies to try to provide maximum freedom for responsible journalists and publishers while preventing dangerous misbehaviour, libel and abuses of power.

A number of U.S. defenders of a free press, from The Miami Herald and Washington Post to the Committee to Protect Journalists, have taken an ongoing legal dispute between a powerful publishing family in Ecuador and Ecuador's President Rafael Correa and has written of it as though it ...