Casino debate?
Where is the Casino debate?
You won’t find it in the pages of the Evening Gazette. Have you noticed the complete absence of letters about the casino in the Gazette? It does real damage to open democracy when debate is stifled by the only Teesside-wide opportunity for this issue to be debated. The Gazette is committed to supporting the casino project. Apparantly it sees its role also as inhibiting free expression of opinion on such an important local matter.
Letters critical of the casino project have been sent to the Gazette, but none have appeared.
I wonder what other issues are refused the air of open debate in this way. If readers of this site know of any, we can perhaps begin to give them the air of publicity here. We criticise totalitarian regimes for censorship. There can be invidious censorship exercised by editorial direction, as we can see on the casino issue.
Michael Wright