Riga Hosts Meeting to Discuss How to Explain State Secrets to Journalists Without Actually Explaining Them

Riga is hosting a closed conference on the media's role in the national security system, which is already a ridiculous contradiction in itself. How can you have a closed discussion about transparency? But hey, at least they're trying!

The conference will bring together journalists, security experts, and other smart people to discuss how to tell journalists about state secrets without actually telling them. It's like trying to explain how to swim without ever getting in the water. The grandmothers by Liepaja's sandy beach would call this kind of conversation 'smart talk without sense.'

What's particularly amusing is that the conference will be opened by two ministers - Baiba Braže and Agnese Lāce. One handles foreign policy, the other culture, but together they'll try to understand the media. It's like asking two people who have never seen the sea to explain why the waves in Liepaja are bigger than those in Riga's Daugava River.

Experts with long surnames and even longer presentations will arrive from abroad to talk about how their countries solve these problems. A Norwegian will share his experience, but has he heard about Latvian journalists' ability to extract truth even from a stone? At the end of the conference, they'll sign a memorandum that will, of course, solve all problems - just like all the other memorandums before it.