Along with social activism and the higher judiciary, the press has emerged as a major political arena for public discussion and institutional accountability. Successive governments have charged the press of monopolism, disrupting 'law and order' and being un-'committed' to decreed developmental goals. On its part, the press, which varies in size, quality and integrity self. External accountable only remains mechanisms like the Press Council and the internal discipline of professionalism' remain-both in theory and practice-inadequate forms of accountability.
Only the Good News is both a controversial addition to the discussion of the press as a political arena as well as a critical analysis of the framework of laws within which it operates. It examines the innumerable, and often contradictory, ways in which an intense middle class struggle fights for the ideological and institutional control of the press through politics and law.