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Sat 01 Jan 2010Media's role vital to liberty, says Dunne
FREEDOM WOULD mean less without a free media, entrepreneur Ben Dunne told a seminar organised in Cork yesterday by the Press Council of Ireland.
Mr Dunne defined the media as being a form of “organised gossip”. However, he said the media was also the bar of freedom in a democracy, serving as a conduit between regular people and the powers that be.
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