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Libyan Journalists Join the Revolution

For four decades Gaddafi kept the media under tight control. Now with a new, robust newspaper and a radio station, the country’s long-stifled journalists are reveling in free speech and joining the protests, reports Babak Dehghanpisheh.

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A cartoon of Muammar Gaddafi in a new newspaper in Benghazi, Libya.

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