Traditional media, under stringent control from propaganda officers, are afraid of making mistakes.
By destroying Berezovsky and Gusinsky, he could bring the independent media under government control, all under the guise of fighting corruption.
Over the years, Mr. Karimov also closed off the country to outside observers and put the news media under government control — one reason the circumstances of his death remain unclear.
Voice of the People is one of two independent radio stations still broadcasting into Zimbabwe, using shortwave transmitters outside the nation to evade Zimbabwe laws that place all broadcast media under government control.
In an exemplary piece of bad timing, at the beginning of its six-month presidency of the European Union in January, Mr Orbán's government placed Hungarian print, broadcast and online media under the control of a new National Media Authority.
The Iranian authorities have long kept the media under strict control, but arrests and intimidation intensified after the 2009 democracy protests.
But with so much of the media under corporate control, we need popular documentaries that speak directly to the issues of the day.
Guillermo Lasso, the banker who came second to Correa in the 2013 election — by 23percentto57percentcent — warned in an open letter that the reforms had placed the media under state control and militarized the country "as though we citizens were enemies of the government".
