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Still not quite sure how stopping a broadcast helps Lord Recluse present himself as not being a dictator 
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Who's going to know what Recluse is up to if they can't broadcast about it?
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Well, it'd make people pretty suspicious
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Still not quite sure how stopping a broadcast helps Lord Recluse present himself as not being a dictator
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Who's going to know what Recluse is up to if they can't broadcast about it?
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Well, it'd make people pretty suspicious
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No, because they don't get to know about it. By allowing Vimes' WSPDR to report most things Recluse gives the impression that the Rogue Isles has freedom of the press, but as soon as Vimes gets her hands on anything too sensitive and damaging to his regime he stamps on her, rather hard. Not directly, hence why his Arachnos cronies like Marshall Brass use deniable operatives like player-villains to do the stamping, but Vimes knows where the message is coming from, even if she can't prove it. 
Nobody knows that information is missing in the same way as you don't know (not until well after the fact anyway) if any real world news service has been gagged.
And she's not about to go against Recluse in a big way because she knows that she'd just have an unfortunate accident one day before she could report too much that incriminated him - and we player villains would probably be the ones organising her unfortunate accident
Don't forget Valk, Amanda Vines is a friend of TELEVISION.
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Actually he encourages her, he likes to have a voice of opposition.
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Yeah one of the arcs does say this - he likes to give people hope (hence Westin Phipps) so they don't think they're living in a complete dictatorship, but he does really control what she says - the Rogue Isles do have censorship - I've been an agent of it
Sometimes she gets over-ambitious though and tries to be a proper journalist - that's when she needs slapping down a bit
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And does she allow herself to be intimidated by thugs like you?
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She didn't, we shut down the news station whilst Arachnos had a chat with her.
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And did that work?
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Probably not, but we stopped the broadcast and got paid, why should we care what she does now?
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Still not quite sure how stopping a broadcast helps Lord Recluse present himself as not being a dictator
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We weren't in the employ of Arachnos for that mission,
at least, not officially.
Arachnos simply took advantage of the situation to inform Miss Vines what she could and couldn't broadcast.