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05-15-2009, 09:00 AM
MONGOLIA - Government bans media from being a watchdog
Being threated by the government to serve them, mass media in Mongolia lost its credibility, said the report "Media Freedom Report: Mongolia, 2008".
The report was issued in May 2009 by Globe International (http://mail2web.com/cgi-bin/redir.asp?lid=0&newsite=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102577819078&s=5816&e=001CON7EzKPdQ0I5G0jyCbXk8ljSAHcKIJF1PCOP7sExPNU4 dJ2T5xA8_lKLDZkwoO6jQqeMFaIz48N4uGDEK02z07zdxDP9nv-2OW_NIJ5R7bAvFInwP9uhevHYIeuoLySd8idMtD0xRk5O_UZ4h iH5w==), a FORUM-ASIA member in Mongolia. "Journalists experience a range of pressures" and their source of information often are subjected to threat. "As a result, the media cannot fulfill its role as a government watchdog".
For instance, for four days in 2008, the presidential decree on the state of emergency banned the operation of all broadcasting channels except for the governmental one.
The report highlights other violations of press freedom such as censorship and assaults of journalists.
It also presents the legal framework to protect press freedom. To read the whole report, please click here (.pdf). (http://mail2web.com/cgi-bin/redir.asp?lid=0&newsite=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102577819078&s=5816&e=001CON7EzKPdQ2CTz4m9MwkzCzD8WJ7C6UMuLsGDK4WfrxNC SzxD91uKfcAZ0oWbuWdo80UuYHR1kCjkLhBUaXI3PEbc66ZPyY aHDyT748FSfoZ60AnE8d5mJocZPofUsN4lUQPRWyrFGQLsNifA BNsv8tueNvjDRn1-8IZhbdJuPNchRONs6L6O0J-fvgj7VbiC1WO_Anc-2mZNfGqbZr0Qem3Iy9PMeK3QFCukElNgn_tT6t1KJ9KYKauRMs JXWLf)
Being threated by the government to serve them, mass media in Mongolia lost its credibility, said the report "Media Freedom Report: Mongolia, 2008".
The report was issued in May 2009 by Globe International (http://mail2web.com/cgi-bin/redir.asp?lid=0&newsite=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102577819078&s=5816&e=001CON7EzKPdQ0I5G0jyCbXk8ljSAHcKIJF1PCOP7sExPNU4 dJ2T5xA8_lKLDZkwoO6jQqeMFaIz48N4uGDEK02z07zdxDP9nv-2OW_NIJ5R7bAvFInwP9uhevHYIeuoLySd8idMtD0xRk5O_UZ4h iH5w==), a FORUM-ASIA member in Mongolia. "Journalists experience a range of pressures" and their source of information often are subjected to threat. "As a result, the media cannot fulfill its role as a government watchdog".
For instance, for four days in 2008, the presidential decree on the state of emergency banned the operation of all broadcasting channels except for the governmental one.
The report highlights other violations of press freedom such as censorship and assaults of journalists.
It also presents the legal framework to protect press freedom. To read the whole report, please click here (.pdf). (http://mail2web.com/cgi-bin/redir.asp?lid=0&newsite=http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?et=1102577819078&s=5816&e=001CON7EzKPdQ2CTz4m9MwkzCzD8WJ7C6UMuLsGDK4WfrxNC SzxD91uKfcAZ0oWbuWdo80UuYHR1kCjkLhBUaXI3PEbc66ZPyY aHDyT748FSfoZ60AnE8d5mJocZPofUsN4lUQPRWyrFGQLsNifA BNsv8tueNvjDRn1-8IZhbdJuPNchRONs6L6O0J-fvgj7VbiC1WO_Anc-2mZNfGqbZr0Qem3Iy9PMeK3QFCukElNgn_tT6t1KJ9KYKauRMs JXWLf)