TEANAU TUIONO: I'd be a natural, Mr Todd Muller says. Citizens need timely and accurate information about their rights and responsibilities, knowledge of our political institutions, and an appreciation of each other's needs, interests, and aspirations. An independent media must rest on the foundation of a strong regulatory framework that reinforces responsible self-management. Of course, the media play a part in disseminating those ideas and information, and I reflect on a documentary I watched while I was flatting in Aro Valley in the 1990s, and it was by Noam Chomsky, which was about how corporate ownership can influence the framing of news stories. It was called Manufacturing Consent. 