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The press is being censored in a different way. The government is not giving them the dollars they need to buy paper for printing (there is a currency exchange
by rafaelm 13y ago
The press is being censored in a different way. The government is not giving them the dollars they need to buy paper for printing (there is a currency exchange control and no one can buy dollars without govt approval). There is no truly "free press" since they all depend on the government to give them the money for buying paper. Several regional newspapers have had to shut down already.
You either tone down the stuff critical to the government or you will shut down sooner or later because of the lack of printing material.
Right now the biggest newspapers in the country have reduced their issues to around 12 pages every day. They've had to print only the essential stuff (these twitter news will probably be printed tomorrow since this took place last night at around 1am).