For the study, the paper views self-censorship as the act of journalists limiting or ignoring a story or parts of a story for various reasons and not limited to external threats or the fear of negative repercussions. [...] On the contrary, the Church 128 Watching the Words orthodoxy stated that the Earth was the centre of the universe and immovable. [...] Self-censorship to Avoid Prosecution Article 7(5) of the Constitution of Bhutan guarantees the freedom of the press. [...] According to some respondents, for topics such as monarchy, “as a citizen of the country”, it is their “responsibility to protect the privacy or maintain the sanctity of the institution”. [...] With the general freedom to report stories, it could be fair to evaluate journalists practising self-censorship as altruistically motivated – for the benefit of the sources, parent organisation or advertisers, although the fear of prosecution remains one of the causes.
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