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N Korea tops censorship league
North Korea heads a league table of the 10 most censored countries, according to a survey by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. All "news" in North Korea is positive, there are no independent journalists, and all radio and television receivers are locked to government-specified frequencies, the CPJ said in a report to mark World Press Freedom Day yesterday. North Korea is followed by:

Burma
Turkmenistan
Equatorial Guinea
Libya
Eritrea
Cuba
Uzbekistan
Syria
Belarus

The survey was based on a variety of criteria, including formal censorship, harassment of journalists, jamming of foreign news broadcasts and restrictions on internet access. "People in these countries are virtually isolated from the rest of the world by authoritarian rulers who muzzle the media and keep a chokehold on information through restrictive laws, fear and intimidation," said Ann Cooper, the CPJ's executive director.

In North Korea, almost all news is supplied by the official news agency, which "serves up a daily diet ...
... which is about the only diet they get...
... of fawning coverage of 'Dear Leader' Kim Jong-il and his official engagements," the report said, adding that the country's grinding poverty and famines were never mentioned.
Posted by: Steve White 2006-05-04
http://www.rantburg.com/poparticle.php?ID=150683