The Editor, Sir:
I have read, with interest, your editorial, 'Cramping the fourth estate', and agreed that the Prime Minister should 'make light of the psychobabble that has attended her drawings', but at the same time pose some questions.
Are parliamentarians allowed any privacy while in the House or should their private notes be available to the media, where the editors determine what is to be published?
Is the solution to the problem of cramped space for the media (a) allowing media personnel to use any available area and make private discussions of parliamentarians or notes to colleagues, fair game for sensitive listening devices or photography (b) expanding the area reserved for the media?
I am, etc.,
ARCHIBALD CAMPBELL
UWI, Mona
Note: Parliamentarians enjoy unique privileges and privacy which the media respect. The physical space available to working media personnel is woefully inadequate - The Editor.
