Trinidad & Tobago: State to Take Action Against TV Station

With the Director of Public Prosecutions poised to take legal action against the TV station that aired footage of a child being assaulted, Gerard Best “think[s] we may be on the brink of a watershed moment in the history of our local media…because [the Telecommunications Authority of Trinidad and Tobago] is, indirectly, calling all media practitioners and media houses to consider more deliberately the need for principled self-regulation in ethical decision-making.”

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