Episode 1631
Mass media in Yemen
Thu, 2021-Oct-21 00:25 UTC
Length - 2:14
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The random article for Thursday, 21 October 2021 is Mass media in Yemen.
Yemen's Ministry of Information influences the mass media through its control of printing presses, granting of newspaper subsidies, and ownership of the country's only television and radio stations. Yemen has nine government-controlled, 50 independent, and 30 party-affiliated newspapers. There are approximately 90 magazines, 50 percent of which are private, 30 percent government-controlled, and 20 percent party-affiliated. The government controls the content of news broadcasts and edits coverage of televised parliamentary debates.
Yemen's government usually monitors and blocks political and sexually explicit Web sites. By law and regulation, newspapers and magazines must be government-licensed, and their content is restricted. There have been reports of journalists being physically attacked, as well as arrested and detained. The government gives reasons that such detained journalists are "opposing the law and calling for destruction of infrastructure" and supports some examples as in Shia insurgency in Yemen and retaliations against unity.
The official national news agency is the Saba News Agency.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:25 UTC on Thursday, 21 October 2021.
For the full current version of the article, see Mass media in Yemen on Wikipedia.
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