Global media coverage does restrain government torture and repression

Evidence

That the media (save when carefully excluded, as in our invasion of Grenada, but even then they were in a position to make noise about it had they wanted to) has a benign restraining influence on world torture and civic law enforcement and police repression cannot be doubted, although the now global concern for the national or governmental reputation is generally mediated by worry about American funding, except where it turns out to be more lucrative to be conquered by the United States in the first place. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 759

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Habermas’s public sphere theory and late-20th-century debates, and to contemporary moral-panic discourse on media restraint. — connects to: Sovereign influence over government hinges on mass-media enlightening quality. — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 18; Postcolonial governments silenced dissent while claiming media democratization, with Western backing — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 315