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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by richardlblair on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:25AM (#5164176)
In a lot of countries (including the USA) mainstream news can only show what the government allows them to...

...in this case I would not be surprised if the government essentially told news outlets not to tell the story.

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by theorique on Monday February 04, 2013 @09:26AM (#5164185)
In a lot of countries (including the USA) mainstream news can only show what the government allows them to

[citation needed]

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Re:Why Did The Media Keep The Recent Peaceful Icelandic Revo... by jschuur on Monday February 04, 2013 @11:32AM (#5164992)
So the government has mysterious shadow figures that communicate with tens of thousands of newspapers, TV and radio stations and major news web sites, telling them what not to cover, and somehow this has never gotten out?
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