OFFICIAL ADVERTISING
WHEREAS
several governments in Latin America use the purchase of
advertising by the government or ~s agencies as an instrument
of pressure to punish or reward the media
The 48TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE IAPA RESOLVES
to repudiate the discriminatory purchase of official advertising
as a means to pressure or reward the press
to maintain a state of alert in order to make the appropriate
protest whenever this type of threat to press freedom might occur,curtailing such freedom in a subtle or disguised form.
