Public service, above all : PM
“We look at the media as having no different a role as the kind of role that each of the other three branches of government has. And that is the public service.”
So Prime Minister Jigmi Y Thinley said, explaining to media experts and participants of the two-day dialogue in Thimphu, why the government referred to media as the fourth branch of governance, and not so much as the fourth estate, a conventional reference to the media.
He said that, while providing education, preserving culture and conserving environment, among others, were all part of governance, providing right information, accurate information and timely information was no different.
“Public service must be the primary concern of the media, just as it is for the judiciary, legislature and the executive,” he said.
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