By Jerome-Mario Utomi
Merit, taken
objectively, is ‘something earned, something owed to a person. Taken
subjectively, merit is the right of a person to his earning and is of two
types- condign and congruous merits. While condign merit deals with strict
justice to a reward, congruous merit is not so much a right as a claim but
rests upon what is suitable or fitting in a situation’.
With this words of
Paul Glenn in mind, each time I am asked my opinion on the nation’s media
industry in relation to free speech/freedom of expression, I usually pause to
honestly look at its virtues and attributes both objectively and subjectively,
and in all, one thing often stands out; the Nigerian media industry in the
writer’s views neither merits nor deserves the inequitable treatments so far
mated to it by the successive administrations.
