For years, it has been politically expedient for major news outlets to cover up the truth and impose news blackouts on all serious issues, especially the Kurdish conflict.
On Tuesday, one congressman said he would introduce legislation to allow the police to impose "news blackouts" during future crises, and the government said it was evaluating police guidelines governing the news media during hostage situations.
Most of the work of building a staff, imposing news values, and winning clearance from local cable operators was taken on by Schonfeld.
Since the players' contract expires on Aug. 31, and negotiations on a new one — obviously delicate — are under way, the players decided to impose a news media blackout, and Tony Beadle, the executive director, said in a telephone message that management wanted to "keep an even keel".
Opposition journalists were abducted and foreign reporters were barred in order to impose a news blackout on unrest.
According to AFP, the group said: "This step is part of the organisation's attempt to impose a news blackout on what is going on inside Raqqa city.
Ever since the 1998 floods, disaster stories have been good for circulation, but reporters have to move fast before the propaganda authorities impose a news embargo.
On paper, maybe.Mr Bossi's family (ie, his wife, Manuela Marrone, co-founder of the Northern League and highly political herself) has persuaded the hospital to impose a news black-out.
In a joint statement issued late Sunday night, the parties in Philadelphia promised to impose a news media blackout, which would be a sharp contrast to weeks of bitter jousting in newspapers and on rival Web sites.
Reporters Without Borders said they were victims of an information war waged by both the regime of President Bashar Al Assad, which it said stopped at nothing to impose a news blackout, but also by opposition factions that were increasingly intolerant of dissent.
Their response was to impose a news blackout.
