I don’t wish to directly oppose a recent statement by my fellow supervisor Docters van Leeuwen, as to the reversal of the burden of proof, but if I had been a journalist, I would have gone a little further than simply reporting this standpoint.
Just as an independent parliamentary press is essential for the functioning of a democracy, an independent economic press is essential for the functioning of a capitalist society. Scandals surrounding Lernout & Hauspie in Belgium or Baan and Ahold in the Netherlands came to light mainly thanks to the Anglo-Saxon press, and not the Dutch.