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From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: La Prensa in Nicaragua
Message-ID: <355@cornell.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 2-Nov-85 15:10:54 EST
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Posted: Sat Nov  2 15:10:54 1985
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Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger)
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In article <7316@ucla-cs.ARPA> ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) writes
that there is no comparison between the press censorship exhibited by the
U.S. during World War II and that now being practiced by the Nicaraguan
government.  Let us not forget that there is also a great difference
between the role of newspapers in the United States and in Nicaragua.
In Nicaragua (and elsewhere in Latin America) newspapers play a very active
role in the political arena.  This is certainly no cause for censorship.
The point regarding much (but certainly not all) of the censorship of
La Prensa is that the paper is making an effort to undermine the very
fragile economic and political situation in Nicaragua.  If newspapers
with large circulations in the U.S. were doing things like encouraging
people to cheat at food rationing during World War II it might well have
been the case the U.S. government would have reacted more strongly than
it did.  I am not trying to defend all the press censorship in Nicaragua.
I would just like to be clear that La Prensa is not a paper anything like
a typical North American daily.
-- 
        Gil Neiger 
        Computer Science Department 
        Cornell University 
        Ithaca NY  14853 

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