Abstract
This study hypothesizes that people under conditions of high censorship are likely to be more critical news consumers than people who believe they live in countries with a free and objective press. An experimental design using an international news story, attributed either to a high- or low-constraint source, was employed to compare the processing strategies of students from the United States and Indonesia. Findings suggest that audiences in censored news environments are more critical in distinguishing among news sources, but less critical of the unconstrained news itself.
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