We know that the media played a key role in the decline of authoritarian regimes that can be sustained by controlling information. Among the many recent examples, we can take one of the fall of the former USSR and the convulsions of Iran, the Khomeini revolution to the recent protests against President Ahmadinejad. The example of the former USSR has become a textbook case known.
Tunajua kwamba vyombo vya habari mchango muhimu katika upungufu wa serikali kimabavu ambayo inaweza kuwa endelevu kwa kudhibiti habari. Miongoni mwa mifano mingi ya hivi karibuni, tunaweza kuchukua moja ya kuanguka kwa USSR ya zamani na degedege wa Iran, mapinduzi Khomeini na maandamano ya hivi karibuni dhidi ya Rais Ahmadinejad. Mfano wa USSR ya zamani imekuwa kesi vitabu maalumu.