(letter sent to Editor of Herald) The edit titled “Gagging the press will only choke the police” (Herald 9/8/2011) is a case of the pot calling the kettle black. Has not the Editorial team of Herald resorted to gagging and choking of public opinion in a bid to manufacture consent in favour of those issues and persons the newspaper wishes to promote? When this is the pathetic state of journalism, what moral right does the Editor have to give lessons to the police department on how it needs to conduct itself? Herald needs to first clean its own backyard for it to qualify for cleaning the mess of others.
-Soter
