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The shift in popular outlook may have been made possible by the division of powers among the Sandinista commanders after their electoral defeat. Bayardo Arce Castaño became head of the FSLN's newspapers, radio stations, and television programs and was planning to establish a Sandinista television
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The editorial staff, which included other family members, took the opportunity presented by Cristiana Chamorro's official trip abroad with her mother in November 1990, to publish articles harshly critical of the government for its relations with Sandinista leaders. In January, the staff forced
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The Internet has provided a means for newspapers and other media organizations to deliver news and, significantly, the means to look up old news. Some organizations only make limited amounts of their output available for free, and charge for access to the rest. Other organizations allow their
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are considered so influential that opponents of their political position have targeted them for attacks. The rightist Radio Corporación, for instance, was heavily damaged twice by Sandinistas, in the early years of the Chamorro government and the Sandinista Radio Ya was attacked by unknown
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was still a key word in the printed and broadcast press, and Sandinista dominance over the communications media largely continued, despite the transfer of power in the government. After the 1990 elections, however, important differences of opinion emerged in the relationship between the
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Cristiana Chamorro to resign as editor and removed Violeta Chamorro from the board of directors. The changes were seen as an attempt by the editorial staff to establish
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years for its virulently partisan and sensationalist character, the communications media began to show small signs of moderation and objectivity as the
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was run by the president's daughter, Cristiana Chamorro de Lacayo also the wife of Antonio Lacayo. Cristiana Chamorro's tight control over
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One of the two pro-Sandinista newspapers also moved in the 1990s to a position more critical of the Chamorro government and the FSLN.
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of her mother's government led to a rebellion among the editorial board and staff within a year after the 1990 election.
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became the first public forum in which Sandinista leaders expressed internal disagreements in February 1992.
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The three major dailies of the Sandinista period continued to dominate the print media market in 1993.
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station. Significantly, the first disagreement aired in Barricada was between Arce and Daniel Ortega.
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Several weekly newspapers also were published in the early 1990s. The COSEP group brought out
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as an independent paper rather than the official voice of the government.
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the
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The greatest news source for most Nicaraguans is the radio. Some
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consist of several different types of communications media:
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Sandinista-dominated media and official FSLN positions.
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in the early 1990s; and a Sandinista group continued
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Index

Radio Corporación
television
radio
cinema
newspapers
magazines
Internet
Web sites
Constitution of Nicaragua
Nicaragua
Sandinista
Chamorro
partisanship
radio stations
La Prensa
Pedro Joaquín Chamorro Cardenal
criticism
Barricada
El Nuevo Diario
FSLN
List of television stations in Nicaragua
Televicentro Canal 2
Canal 4
Canal 6
Telenica Canal 8
Canal 9
Canal 10
TV RED
Canal 12 Nicavisión
Viva Nicaragua 13

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