Journalism at its best

The Editor, Sir:

'Big-up' to The Sunday Gleaner editorial team for this week's edition. Section A, in particular, was a model of journalism at its best. It informed and educated in one of the most provocative and important public issues with which we have had to wrestle in a long while.

The personality profiles were especially useful and served to put a face, as it were, on those who might have been no more than a name to some members of the public. By this kind of reporting, you have helped to underscore the importance of transparency in public administration and set a standard which will have to be maintained for the future. Our leaders should be aware by this that the people are not prepared to "take it any more". The media would do well to continue sounding the warning.

It is not only politicians but leaders of business and the rest of civil society who must be made to recognise that we cannot continue in the old way. For too long, in both the public and private sectors, there are those who have got away with treating this country as their own fiefdom, wherein they can do what they please and the public must "grin and bear it".

Congratulations also to those sections of the electronic media, especially the newsrooms, which have been excelling in the task of letting the people know. Together, all sections of the media, acting responsibly, will help to offer hope for a better way forward.

I am, etc.,

MEDIA WATCHER

Kingston.