A raid on TnT media sending out a message...

So imagine you're sitting in your office calmly and peacefully and then "blam" police enters your building with weaponry, yanking open drawers, shuffling through your papers, asking questions they have no right to and  oh gorsh, seizing those precious articles that you took so long to write? Well Hey it's just another day in TnT! According to the Express Newspaper:

"A police team comprised of nine officers from the Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau (ACIB) and led by Senior Supt Solomon Koon Koon, searched the desk of senior reporter Andre Bagoo allegedly in relation to an article written by him on December 20, 2011 about a row between Integrity Commission chairman Ken Gordon and deputy chairman Gladys Gafoor."

Thus far this action by the ACIB is being condemned not only by the public, but also by public figures who have attempted to remove themselves from the situation completely. This raid is being viewed by the public and also by myself as a direct threat to the media within Trinidad and Tobago. It instills fear and may send a message to persons in the media that nothing unfavourable should be reported or else their basic safety, privacy and the confidentially between journalist and his or her sources are threatened. The content is also threatened as journalists may not feel the need to express freedom of thought and to expose issues, especially those relating to government issues, for fear of being harassed and later silenced. What really gives the right, for this Anti-Corruption Investigation Bureau to blatantly invade someone's privacy and condemn someone for doing their duty? Ironically enough doesn't this raid make their actions seem corrupt in the end?

Ha, well yes. People of the media, it is time to go back to the days of writing under pseudo names for protection of yourself and for protection of your sources. After all, no one wants to get raided....