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Originally Posted by CHUQ
BAGHDAD, Iraq -
Iraq's Interior Ministry said Thursday it had formed a special unit to monitor news coverage and vowed to take legal action against journalists who failed to correct stories the ministry deemed to be incorrect.
Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim Khalaf, spokesman for the ministry, said the purpose of the special monitoring unit was to find "fabricated and false news that hurts and gives the Iraqis a wrong picture that the security situation is very bad, when the facts are totally different."
Does this sound similar to censorship?
Iraq ministry forms unit to monitor news - Yahoo! News |
The government deciding what is true or not? Naa, that doesn't sound LIKE censorship, it IS censorship, pure and simple. Muzzling a free press is on the the most important things you need to do to create and maintain a dictatorship. Even if their point is valid, which it often is, at first.
I would think news of the Shia and Sunni kicking each others asses every day would be a real turn off to the rest of the people and they would feel better if they didn't KNOW that. But it would also serve the purpose of not telling them how poorly their government is doing to stop these people from fighting.
Is this an example of the "free and democratic Iraq" our people are dying for over there?
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