Article (3) in chapter (2) Objectives of the News Media Law, the following clauses are provided to acknowledge the press as the fourth Estate as follows: (a) To materialize News Media Industries which are offered freedom from censorship to express, publish, or distribute freely as part of rights and privileges granted to every citizen in compliance with regulations stated in the national constitution (b) To ensure that News Media can stand up firmly as the fourth Estate of our nation (c) To guarantee that News Media workers are fully provided with their entitlements and freedom (d) To establish and develop responsibilities, ethics, rules and regulations, and practices to be adopted within relevant industries and organization (e) To make news accessible to every citizen (f) To ensure any complaints, arguments regarding publications or broadcasting of a certain media are to be settled and negotiated in a conciliatory manner. Again, Article 7 provides: While a news media worker is trying to get news in compliance with regulations specified by relevant and responsible organizations, in the areas where wars break out, and where conflicts or riots and demonstrations take place (a) he/she shall be exempt from being detained by a certain securityrelated authority or his/her equipment being confiscated or destroyed. (b) he/she shall be entitled to ask for their safety and protective measures from the security-related organizations. Other than these legal rights, articles 4, 5, 6, 8, and 9 also ensure protection for the professionals in a journalism career. However, a legal specialist reflected that SAC ignores that legal protection and rights for the journalists.11 The specialist remarks, “Arresting and prosecuting journalists by applying other laws and regulations, ignoring mentioned existing legal provisions, generates a great blow to the journalists, becoming vulnerable.” 11 Source: Interview with legal specialist Repeated Dark Age of News Media 22