"The freedoms of opinion, expression, and the press are little known in Burma, where any criticism, direct or indirect of the government or government policy is taken as a direct attack against the "stability of the State." ... In the year 2000, Paris-based Reporters Sans Frontiers (RSF) again issued a release condemning the junta for depriving the Burmese people of any objective news and violating the rights of Burmese and foreign journalists to practice their profession freely. It said Burma is still the country which is keeping the most journalists in prison... There is only one main government-run news agency in Burma. The three newspapers, and the two radio and television stations feed off the news agency, and together, act as mouthpieces for the junta. Foreign radio broadcasts such as BBC, VOA and DVB are monitored by the MI and some portions of the news are scrambled. The arts also suffer from the heavy-handed and pervasive censorship of the junta, as every image and sentence produced has to be passed by the government?s censorship board..."