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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.
Babak Dehghanpisheh
Published
Feb. 28 2011
2:51PM EST
A cartoon of Muammar Gaddafi in a new newspaper in Benghazi, Libya.
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