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 In many new democracies the media have often been biased in favour of the incumbents. Therefore strict rules on election advertisements have been introduced. The effect has often been that the editors have been so scared of being biased that they have not covered the campaign in a critical manner at all, and left the media outlet’s coverage to the parties own commercials transmitted free of charge. Alternatively the editors have covered the incumbents in excess, claiming this is not campaign but covering regular Government business.