LOOK at how many dailies in a country and you may able to guess the standard of that particular country, I noted somewhere in my past reading. If it is the case, my native land is going to blossom and might possess a bright future. It is because the government has allowed the private to run dailies paper with effect fro 1st April which is yesterday. There have been 16 numbers of dailies that had obtained license to commence. Out of permitted ones, only 4 able to run on the very first day. It has raised eye brows of international onlooker toward Myanmar.
In fact, Myanmar is no strange to dailies paper with her people. It has been introduced since its colony era and that momentum was ceased by military cope in 1962. Since then, people have been closed their ear and eyes by making available for government control mouthpiece papers. There is a joke saying in Burma that only Myanmarese people read newspaper from back. Because we all accept that there is only one section that is true inside government run paper. It is the obituary section. As communication in Myanmar is difficult, people used to rely on paper to know the news of their friends and relatives death.
The day has come for our people to taste real newspaper now. We hope the media control council will not return previous condition to press journalists. Without relevant news available, our people would be struggling in the rumors like current affairs between Buddhists and Muslim communities. We would have avoided such rumor things in past only if we had private newspaper that publish the news as it is. Now we have been on the right track and our people's greedy desire on chasing news would be fed by private run papers. I am sure all papers (16) will not survive in the long run. The time and readership will decide which one is reliable and worth to read for their hard earn money.
Wish Myanmar's Media Community able to find a well mixed formula to live long to its eternal.
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