What's more important-Press freedom or social harmony

A survey by the BBC world service has found that opinion is divided around the world on the importance of press freedom and in the Uk we don't trust the press and think that its owners exhert too much influence

56% thought that freedom of the press was very important to ensure a free society.

But interestingly

40% said it was more important to maintain social harmony and peace, even if it meant curbing the press's freedom to report news truthfully.

Quite what the correlation of these two is I am not quite sure.

Interestingly

In the United States, Britain and Germany, only around 29% of those interviewed thought their media did a good job in reporting news accurately

and

In Brazil, Mexico, the United States and Britain, more than 70% of respondents agreed with the suggestion that ownership was an issue because the owners' political views emerged in the news.