• bartolomeo@suppo.fi
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    10 months ago

    It’s not really about what I think.

    Ordering media silence means the media has been ordered not to report on something, like the Chinese media and declining economic indicators. That’s not the case here.

    • ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]@hexbear.net
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      10 months ago

      That would be a government enforced media silence - media silence just means people not talking to the media or the media not reporting on a subject, it doesn’t require a direct order from the government to the media to not report on something. Media might create a voluntary silence, where they agree not to report on a subject, or might have a silence pushed on them, like football’s “silenzio stampa”, where teams will refuse to talk to or interact with the press when they’re unhappy with reporting.