two days ago, i spent a few hours watching how the police, on a verbal government order, closed down drik gallery because of their planned exhibition of tibet into exile. there must have been journalists from every media present, but yesterday i found the news missing from several large newspapers.

i will not dwell on the goods or bads of stopping the exhibition here, thats national politics on a big, international, heavyweight scale. however, if we are to say that we have a free press in this country, we would expect them to report without "fear or favour", as one of the leading papers claim. its up to the priorities of the editors what to squeeze into 20 pages, however, i would have expected that a real free press would have found this happening worth a good mention.

when the traditional press choose to hide certain news, it seems quite obvious that we need social media and citizen reporting to bring transparency and create open debates. happy blogging