Word: embolden
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When communism began to self-destruct last year, TV journalists did more than just report the phenomenon -- they participated in it. The presence of foreign cameramen seemed to embolden the demonstrators. Once the Chinese authorities decided to shed blood, they literally pulled the plug on television coverage. Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu also kept the press out of his country while he slaughtered its citizens. Not until TV aired footage of his lifeless body were many Rumanians convinced that the despot had really been executed...