- For full video interview, see belowPolice raids this week on an Australian media organisation and a journalist's home are the actions you would expect of an authoritarian regime, Professor Robert Patman says. Prof Patman called it "a stunning intervention in the circulation of free news in a pluralist democracy''. Prof Patman said denigration of independent media and encroachments on news media freedom was a worldwide trend. Freedom of the press was vital to a country's citizens, Prof Patman said. Many politicians complain about the media because the media is doing its job .

Source: Otago Daily Times June 07, 2019 04:52 UTC