Calming down or merely shutting up news?

[uppityperson]

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKT7264920070929

Myanmar apologises for journalist's death
Sat Sep 29, 2007 4:29am BST
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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan strongly protested to Myanmar over the killing of a Japanese video journalist during an anti-government rally, and Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win offered apologies, Kyodo news agency said on Saturday.

Fifty-year-old Kenji Nagai was fatally wounded in Yangon on Thursday, and pictures smuggled out of the country showed him clutching a camera as he lay dying.

Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura made the protest when he met his Myanmar counterpart at U.N. headquarters in New York on Friday.
Photo The death of Nagai "was extremely regrettable and we will lodge a stern protest," Japanese officials quoted Komura as telling Nyan Win, Kyodo said.

Nyan Win told Komura he was indeed sorry for the death, telling Japanese officials: "Demonstrations are beginning to calm down, and we would also like to exercise restraint," Kyodo said....(bit more)

But consider this:
http://www.ibnlive.com/news/myanmars-internet-activists-blog-to-save-nation/49572-2.html

London: Ko Htike is a man with a laptop, sitting in London, a long way from his home in Myanmar.

He has become a key middleman in the effort to expose events in his country.

Ko Htike is emailed a photo, apparent visual evidence that police raided a monastery that Buddhist monks inside were beaten and arrested.

He logs on from 3 am every day to receive the latest digitally smuggled photos, video and information.

"It's too dangerous for them. If they get caught you will never know their future. Maybe they’ll just disappear or be in prison for life or die,” says Htike....(bit more)

Is it calming down or is outside contact being cut?