Seabed minerals ‘tit for tat’

A smoke signaller writes: Although the Cook Islands Herald (10 April) suitably admonished, chastised and ridiculed Paul Lynch [Seabed Minerals commissioner] for his stance over the Chinese visitors, the matter remains that they overturned press freedoms in agreeing to his request that the “little people” need not decide whether newsworthy material is of any interest.

A smoke signaller writes: Although the Cook Islands Herald (10 April) suitably admonished, chastised and ridiculed Paul Lynch [Seabed Minerals commissioner] for his stance over the Chinese visitors, the matter remains that they overturned press freedoms in agreeing to his request that the “little people” need not decide whether newsworthy material is of any interest.