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From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Sandinistas and Human Rights
Message-ID: <4625@ucla-cs.ARPA>
Date: Tue, 2-Apr-85 13:26:31 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  2 13:26:31 1985
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Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell)
Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department
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Summary: 

In article <562@whuxl.UUCP> orb@whuxl.UUCP (SEVENER) writes:

>Actually opposition parties participating in the election were each
>given a certain amount of television time equal to that provided for
>the Sandinistas.  Of course this does not mean that the Sandinista government
>could not dominate the media in other ways, any more than whomever is
>President in our own country can dominate the media without paying for
>explicit advertising time.
>         tim sevener  whuxl!orb

  The big difference is that in Nicaragua, the government OWNS the media.
The TV station does whatever the government tells them to do. Do you imagine
what would it be like if the US government owned ALL the TV and radio stations?.
How can you expect the people to be well informed when all the places they
go to get information (TV, radio, newspapers) are all owned by the government
(except for "La Prensa", the only remaining opposition newspaper which is
heavily censored)?.
  All dictatorships, left wing and right wing alike, rely on a censored press
and media. That's the only way of keeping the truth from reaching its people.
-- 
    Eduardo Krell               UCLA Computer Science Department
    ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa      ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell