Censorship in action

[qatar]

Props to Nigel for pointing out a glorious example of Qatari self-censorship in action. Here, side by side, are a Reuters article and its redactions in the Gulf Times and Peninsula, with significant differences in red:

REUTERSGULF TIMESPENINSULA
A long-planned $3 billion bridge linking Bahrain and Qatar has been put on hold and the project team

Comments

[gustavolacerda]

Sounds like a great dataset to have for computational linguistics.

[gustavolacerda]

They both credit Reuters, without explaining that it's redacted. This feels wrong. Is Reuters ok with it?

[qatar]

It's quite unusual NOT to edit wire articles -- usually for length, though, not objectionable content. :-)

[zahariel]

Political tensions, eh? Like "Qatar and Bahrain are now at war, which they weren't when the bridge was announced." That would be a tension, right? Still, this censorship is pretty great, I have to admit.

[ext_200164]

surprised anyone. and it does really stand out when you display it this way.
neat...

Censorship?

[anonymous]

I don't see this as "Censorship", it looks like they don't want to publish the idea of "Political Tension" between Qatar and Bahrain in Qatari newspapers...

Re: Censorship?

[anonymous]

Censorship:
The practice of suppressing a text or part of a text that is considered objectionable according to certain standards.

www.medialit.org/reading_room/article565.html

Re: Censorship?

[anonymous]

What are you talking about? Obviously they don't want to publish that information, being that they didn't. Cuz they're self-censoring! The worst kind.

Re: Censorship?

[qatar]

What on earth is censorship, if not that?