It wasn’t always this way.
Even as late as 1991, the Kuwaiti government actually even had official censors assigned to each newspaper in the land—and the same has been true for TV stations until fairly recently.
Nonetheless, through the tradition of diwaniyas—where wide-ranging public debate has typically taken place in Kuwait over several centuries—Kuwait’s level of public discourse on issues-of-the-day far surpasses what is often experienced by many other Arab states in the region (and in north Africa or Western Asia).
This means that in general, Kuwaiti society if very supportive of freedom of the press.
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At this junction, another audience member asked why there hasn’t been more regular reporting about violence and crime in the newspapers . Nor is much known about what can be done by ex-pats to seek social justice in Kuwait.
This is particularly true of the Arab language press which is biased toward Kuwaiti viewpoint and not particularly supportive of Palestinian and other nationality viewpoints.
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