Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site cornell.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!bellcore!petrus!scherzo!allegra!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!vax135!cornell!gil 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 Article-I.D.: cornell.355 Posted: Sat Nov 2 15:10:54 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 5-Nov-85 06:04:45 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7280@ucla-cs.ARPA> <176@cornell.UUCP> <7316@ucla-cs.ARPA> Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) Distribution: net Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 25 Summary: 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 {uw-beaver,ihnp4,decvax,vax135}!cornell!gil (UUCP) gil@Cornell.ARPA (ARPAnet) ; gil@CRNLCS (BITNET)