"The blind leading the blind: Censorship keeps the people of Burma in the dark, as the generals remain blithely unaware of the demands of the Information Age. Is journalism in Burma dead? If not, it must be in a coma. In 1987, the publication of a poem which closed with the words, ?...gone down is the circumference of the sun,? caught the attention of Burma?s hawk-eyed censors. The sun, or ?ne win? in Burmese, sounds much like the name of the then-Chairman of the Burma Socialist Programme Party (BSPP), Ne Win. The sentence, according to the censors, implied that ?Ne Win had passed away,? and they ordered the line deleted..."