Media freedom is not a priority for Myanmar’s paradoxically named ruling party – the National League for Democracy (NLD). After three journalists were arrested by the country’s military on June 26— adding to an escalating climate of fear among the press — it is surprising that the nation’s de facto ruler, and the NLD’s leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, appears to be turning her back on the very institution that supported her high-profile fight for a democratic Myanmar in the first place....
