No worse than Chavez

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) warns of the danger to free speech posed by 21st century dictators. Joel Simon, executive director of CPJ, called Putin and Chavez part of a new generation of slick dictators who use laws to control the media and impose harsh censorship. Simon even came up with a new term - “democrats”. “The Democrat maintains the facade of a democratic society, on paper there is freedom of speech, a multi-party system and an independent judiciary, but from the inside he has long since devastated them.”