Ms. Kurland said that it was "concerning that members of the press and elected officials are targeted and arrested".
Far from being open and transparent, this report shows that Airbnb intentionally misled the press and elected officials in New York," she said.
Many Chinese are well aware of this, but the one-party communist system has no mechanisms to solve these conflicts: without party politics, a free press, and elected political representation, such conflicts cannot be solved.
As I wrote earlier today, the story of Cambridge Analytica that the press, public and elected officials seem to have fixated on is that of a rogue company run amok with breached data that manipulated unwitting Americans into electing the candidate of the company's choice (the company denies all of the allegations).
There have been no indignant and furious calls from the press, citizenry, and elected officials for a swift, harsh, and massive crackdown, sweeps, and toss the book demands at them.
Because of where the tumor was located and the horse's discomfort, veterinarians and zoo staff believed there was a "poor long-term prognosis," according to a press release, and "elected to humanely euthanize Rolles".
In the U.S., a free press, independent courts and elected representativeseach with their own shortcomings, to be surehelp sort out who deserves to be pilloried, and how to fix the underlying mess.
Jackie's world is one of a bustling, recovering Liberia with a free press and democratically elected leaders.
From 1946, spoiled by the US-sponsored coup of 1949 which first brought military rule to the region, Syria witnessed a shortlived parliamentary democracy, a vibrant civil society and a brief period of a free press, and it elected leaders whose names remain embedded in the national memory as examples of the Syria it can be, and it should be.
Now, there is a school of social theory that has a name for a system in which press barons, police officers and elected politicians operate a mutual back-scratching club: it is termed "the manufacturing of consent".
In Pakistan, a moment where it seemed that the press might finally become free and elected civilian rulers might regularly complete their terms has passed.
