Josh Friedman discusses censorship

Josh Friedman, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, spoke on the topic of journalism in the Third World at the Bernard Center on Monday, April 21, 1986. Friedman emphasized that countries such as Ethiopia, Lebanon, and Cuba, where most news is censored and manipulated, lack the freedom of speech afforded to American journalists.

Friedman explained that these countries' governments dictate much of the information that both citizens and foreign reporters see and hear, particularly through restrictive permission measures for reporters to enter these countries. Additionally, according to Friedman, further restrictions prevented journalists from entering certain areas, or even leaving their hotel without escort.

Friedman also revealed the dangers journalists faced included demotion at best or imprisonment and death at worst if they refused to obey these restrictions.