Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ucla-cs.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!decwrl!Glacier!oliveb!hplabs!sdcrdcf!ucla-cs!ekrell From: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: La Prensa in Nicaragua Message-ID: <7316@ucla-cs.ARPA> Date: Wed, 30-Oct-85 14:10:02 EST Article-I.D.: ucla-cs.7316 Posted: Wed Oct 30 14:10:02 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Nov-85 12:47:37 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> <176@cornell.UUCP> Reply-To: ekrell@ucla-cs.UUCP (Eduardo Krell) Distribution: net Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Lines: 30 Summary: In article <176@cornell.UUCP> gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) writes: >... there is no denying the fact that La >Presna is a right wing newspaper. and just what makes a newspaper to be right wing?. By the same reasoning, I can call all opposition magazines in Chile to be left wing (like the government does call them), but I know they are not. When there is a left wing government on power, that doesn't make all opposition media a right wing one and viceversa. >the U.S. government also severely restricted what papers could print >during World War II. there is no comparison. The censorship to La Prensa began before the fighting against the contras started. It has worsen ever since. >Citing the fact that the Chamorros were >anti-Somoza before the revolution does not change this fact. Bear in >mind that Chamorros run the other two papers in Managua: The FSLN >(Sandinista) Barricada and the independent (but pro-government) El >Nuevo Diario. I know that. Barricada and La Prensa are run by two Chamorro brothers. Also, your wording suggest that the Chamorros who run La Prensa were anti-somozas before the revolution but changed their mind after it. The fact is they remain anti-somozas and all they want is a free, democratic Nicaragua. -- Eduardo Krell UCLA Computer Science Department ekrell@ucla-locus.arpa ..!{sdcrdcf,ihnp4,trwspp,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!ekrell