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https://cpj.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/pro-govt20journalists202B20officials20sit20at20panel20in20media20forum20at20Addis20Ababa20Hilton20on20Tuesday2028Awramba20Times29.jpg420238New York, May 5, 2011--Officials in Ethiopia hijacked a local UNESCO-sponsored World Press Freedom Day event, installing government-backed journalists as speakers and nixing independent journalists slated to speak. There was no discussion, as originally planned, of this year's global theme on new media and the Internet at the Tuesday forum, according to local sources and…