Dr. Julien Mercille:

It is correct but I want to emphasise that it is not as if the journalists are thinking: "Oh my God, I wish I could report this but my director would not be happy." There might be some of that in any institution, whether it is the media, the military or a political party. Anybody who has been in that institution for a number of years is very well aware of the rules, where you can go, where you cannot go and how far you can criticise this person or that person. We all know that in our working lives. Some journalists might be completely comfortable with that and never even realise there are constraints because they agree with them all. Other, more critical journalists are well aware of that. They know where the line is and know how far they can go and what the repercussions will be. I am not in their heads, so I cannot give specific examples of thinking like that, but it is the same in any institution. There is nothing special about the media in that.