CIAO DATE: 06/2009
January 2009
National Endowment for Democracy
This report examines the use of money by governments to influence news coverage. Written by Don Podesta, a veteran journalist with more than 30 years' experience at the Washington Post and other newspapers, this report explains that as formerly authoritarian regimes have moved toward more democratic societies, this insidious form of censorship has emerged on a global scale.
Resource link: Soft Censorship: How Governments Around the Globe Use Money to Manipulate the Media [PDF] - 586K