Lights and Wires in a Box

The big question is whether the TVM journalists will continue to exercise their new-found editorial freedom after we're gone. And that was also the theme of the graduation ceremony.My job at the podium was to thank the radio and TV journalists for the opportunity to be part of the history of press freedom in Maldives over the past two months. I shared a little bit of our American media history: Edward R. Murrow's famous quote from his speech 50 years ago to RTNDA regarding the power of television news:
"This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it is merely wires and lights in a box."