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As Eastern Europe struggles towards democracy, the world watches while history seems to be creating itself in front of the camera. But whose truths are being told? The struggle to interpret events to the wider public has turned television stations into battlegrounds. Roumania’s tele-revolution has been very much compromise by the ancien regime and journalists there seem to have escaped the Scylla of censorship only to falter on the Charybdis of self-censorship. In Western Europe too, the performance in reporting events and packaging how they are presented is not always above reproach. Expediency, rather than courage, is, on occasion, the raeaction to politically sensitive material.