Transcript: Analysis: Closing down of newspaper by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe

TAVIS SMILEY
Tavis Smiley (NPR)
09-24-2003
Analysis: Closing down of newspaper by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe

Host: TAVIS SMILEY
Time: 9:00-10:00 AM

TAVIS SMILEY, host:

From NPR in Los Angeles, I'm Tavis Smiley.

Last week the government of Zimbabwe closed that country's only independent newspaper. The Daily News had been highly critical of Zimbabwe's president, Robert Mugabe. Authorities say the paper's publishers had failed to meet the requirements of the law. In other words, the paper did not register under the government's strict new media laws. Police evicted the staff and then seized Daily News equipment. Our regulator commentator Cornel West has been following closely the ...

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