With state media under the Kremlin's thumb, though, Nemtsov was banned from TV.
Photographs began to spring up on social media, under the hashtag #wearehere.
Yet there was never any move towards legislated gagging of the media under the Mbeki administration.
The theatre-maker Lian Bell rose to the challenge, galvanising the furore on social media under the hashtag #wakingthefeminists.
After that round, Woods declined to answer any questions from a throng of news media under the oak tree behind the clubhouse.
The public service campaign for the museum in 2011 was produced internally and distributed to the media under the aegis of the Advertising Council.
The haunting photograph of Chaphekar, shot by Ketevan Kardava, a special correspondent for the Georgian Public Broadcaster network, began trending on social media under the hashtag #PrayForNidhi.
DreamWorks was rebooted last year with a $200m cash injection from Participant Media, under the name of Spielberg's original production company, Amblin Partners.
With the media under the sway of the state, dissenting voices are muffled, and Mr. Putin's re-election in March 2004 is virtually a given.
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 global reach of a campaign to rescue the captured girls, played out on social media under the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, has only made Nigeria's failure to rescue them more embarrassing for Mr Jonathan.
