9. Informal Censorship

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The prevailing situation described above makes it impossible for the handful of journalists who would like to report minority issues in a professional way to do so. Articles that are not conforming to the “nationally correct” norm are simply not published and their authors may be warned against doing such things again. Editorial control is tight and there are cases where a journalist work in a print or electronic medium is edited in such a way as to distort the content. Again during the debate on minorities in July 1999, for example, besides the open hostility of almost all media to the NGO and minority advocates who initiated it, there were cases where the latters’ interviews where truncated in such ways as to be distorted with the purpose, in the case of the country’s most popular television channel, “Antenna” to demonstrate that there was a conspiracy behind the initiative…