IT, media, and telecommunications of Mongolia

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The big chill: Shepherding press freedom
By Barry Lowe, Gemini News Service, New Internationalist, December 1998. Mongolians embraced press freedom as part of the 1990 pro-democracy movement. After suppression of the press for 70 years, they were soon producing more newspapers per head than anywhere else in the world. Press privatization has brought sensationalist rumours and pornography. Proposed changes to media law to restore ethics. Capitalist publishers association opposes.