The Global Jigsaw – The BBC has a monitoring department, which analyses mass media from around the world in more than 100 languages. Why? Because the media of a country says a lot about the country itself. And in autocratic or non-democratic countries, the media may be the mouthpiece of the government, so monitoring its media can help make sense of what it is thinking.
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