The government still controls the airwaves, potential critics have difficulty obtaining newspaper licences, opposition politicians are jailed without trial, protest rallies are banned.
A bitter Nicolas said last week: 'The Belgian Press is afraid and muzzled.' The dismissal of a man who carried out investigations into Belgian government sleaze has raised questions about the system in Belgium whereby the public purse is used to keep afloat companies in financial difficulty, including newspapers.
Normally eager to highlight Mr Chen's difficulties, official newspapers have said little about the attempts by the opposition in Taiwan to unseat him.
Other difficulties street newspapers face include high turnover of "transient" or unreliable staff, lack of adequate funding, lack of journalistic freedom for papers that are funded by local government, and, among some demographics, lack of interest in homeless issues.
On the other hand, there were no significant differences between the 2 groups in terms of difficulty reading a newspaper or hearing.
Costeja cleared up the financial difficulties, but the newspaper records continued to surface whenever anyone Googled his name.
In an unrelated development that underscored the difficulties facing the newspaper industry, Morgan Stanley confirmed that it had dismissed Lisa Monaco, a newspaper analyst, as part of yesterday's layoff of 300 employees worldwide.
Could they not do the same in this new medium?A mile wide, an inch deepOnly with difficulty, because what newspapers offer is at once too deep and too superficial.
In a letter to the Russian proprietor, Independent journalists acknowledge the financial difficulties at the newspaper group – but fear that plans to axe 27 staff roles will be a "tipping point" for the title.
However, they also encountered difficulty when local newspapers refused to run ads that were designed to appeal to Miami's sizable Jewish community, equating Bryant's rhetoric with the same language that many Miami citizens faced during the Holocaust.
