In addition to the government-owned newspaper and national radio network, there is an active, independent press (six weekly newspapers).
The reactions of Syria's government-owned newspapers last week underlined the point.
Two further reasons have been given for the establishment of government-owned newspapers or for the taking over of existing privately owned ones.
Government-owned newspapers reported that 2 people were killed in the riots, and recently acknowledged that 41 others suffocated in a police bus.
Rotimi successfully sued the government-owned newspaper for libel.
Today a Government-owned newspaper in Baghdad carried an appeal by eight Iraqi intellectuals to the Government to be more democratic.
There are no government-owned newspapers.
The National is a government-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi.
The Ghanaian Times is a government-owned daily newspaper published in Accra, Ghana.
Although it is not a government-owned newspaper, the paper is largely regarded as a government mouthpiece and tends to set the daily agenda for the Saudi media.