Abstract
When the debate about transformation in the media industry - or lack of it - reached an unprecedented level of intensity towards the end of 1995, the theneditor of The Sunday Independent and the Saturday Star, Shaun Johnson, delivered this address to the Department of Journalism at the Pretoria Technikon. Because all the issues then raised remain pertinent and largely unresolved, the paper is reproduced here without any ‘hind-sight-driven’ alterations. The central theme is that growing adversarialism between the media and the State was not only predictable, but natural. The question in 1996, as it was in 1995, is whether the media will embrace the debate in order to win the principled arguments underpinning media freedom, or retreat into defensiveness and isolation.
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