When the
media choose to be bystanders, willingly complicit in propagating Nalcor’s
persistent falsifications, is there anything to be done but wait for the fallout such misdeeds inspire?
The silence
that now envelops the squandering of $4 billion by Nalcor on the Muskrat Falls
project — a sum expected to go higher — constitutes an inspiration for some head
scratching. We surely need to ask why the perpetrators deserve protection from questions of accountability.
When all the
‘normal’ checks and balances of a modern democracy fail, isn’t that when the
media should be on the top of their game?
While the
public must take ultimate responsibility for being informed, one aspect of that
job should be to keep an eye on how the media treat the social licence that is the claim
of their profession.
