The time has come to embrace media freedom

Yesterday we celebrated World Press Freedom Day, and it would not have come on a better day than the one we the Rwandan media is getting a shot in the arm. The new Media Law that is in the works has caused a few sparks to fly because the lawmakers had not taken into consideration some of the recommendations by us journalists. The major sticking point in the previous law was criminalizing libel and defamation instead of this being the reserve of the civil courts. This is now history and journalists should now count themselves lucky.