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Libyans find voice in new era of press freedom

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While In America the free press is starving to death as newspapers go out of business left and right, or are bought out by corporate monoliths, the opposite is now happening in Libya. Before the start of Libya's civil war, you could count the number of newspapers in the country on one hand and all were heavily controlled by the government. Now there are 120 independent newspapers in the city of Benghazi alone, according to local journalists.

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