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!lsuc!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!houxm!vax135!cornell!gil From: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) Newsgroups: net.politics Subject: Re: Orphaned Response Message-ID: <604@cornell.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Nov-85 08:11:33 EST Article-I.D.: cornell.604 Posted: Mon Nov 11 08:11:33 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 12-Nov-85 21:01:38 EST References: <531@nbires.UUCP> <7800610@inmet.UUCP> Reply-To: gil@cornell.UUCP (Gil Neiger) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept. Lines: 27 In article <7800610@inmet.UUCP> janw@inmet.UUCP writes: > >Apparently some people make the unspoken assumption: "If a paper >is right-wing, it should be suppressed". Actually, La Prensa >*cannot* be right-wing; due to censorship, its published content >is much the same as in the other papers. People buy it just for >that faint *flavor* of independence. Inadequate as it is, it is >the *only* outlet for unofficial, non-servile information and >views. The authorities don't kill it outright, probably, for the >same reason - it serves as a safety valve. > > Jan Wasilewsky This is only true if you assume that "If a paper is pro-government it must be official and servile." El Nuevo Diario is a privately owned independent paper in Managua that happens to be pro-Sandinista. -- 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)