Because governments should be accountable to the governed, and the media is part of the governed. Media is not a separate arm of the people, it is a more involv

Because governments should be accountable to the governed, and the media is part of the governed. Media is not a separate arm of the people, it is a more involved and interpreted part of the people. This is why it’s so alarming when a politician calls media “the enemy” because they are, in effect, saying their own people are the enemy.