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April 25, 2017 Africa/Global: Media Repression 2.0
"In the days when news was printed on paper, censorship was a crude
practice involving government officials with black pens, the seizure
of printing presses and raids on newsrooms. The complexity and
centralization of broadcasting also made radio and television
vulnerable to censorship even when the governments didn't exercise
direct control of the airwaves. ... New information technologies--
the global, interconnected internet; ubiquitous social media
platforms; smart phones with cameras--were supposed to make
censorship obsolete. Instead, they have just made it more
complicated." - Joel Simon, Committee to Protect Journalists, April
25, 2017
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
June 19, 2017 Africa/Europe: Mediterranean Trajectories
May 17, 2017 Africa/Global: Whose Energy?
May 8, 2017 Africa: World Bank Financing Land Grabs
April 25, 2017 Africa/Global: Media Repression 2.0
April 17, 2017 Africa/Global: New Reports Show Massive Tax Losses
April 10, 2017 Africa: African Feminism Past and Present
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