The NY Times is finally bashing Robert Mugabe because he is… attacking the press in Zimbabwe:
In The Daily News of Zimbabwe readers could follow the long, cheerless saga of President Robert Mugabe’s slide into dictatorship. But the most telling illustration of Zimbabwe’s decline is the case of the newspaper itself. The four-year-old daily, the only one not controlled by the government, has been bombed twice, its staff and distributors beaten and harassed, its founding editor driven into exile. Now the government has closed the paper, using undemocratic laws to extinguish one of the last embers of free speech in Zimbabwe.
Imagine that! A dictator using undemocratic laws to shut down the opposition. Presumably it was too difficult for the Times to report what happened to any and all the white landowners (they dryly report that their farms were ‘confiscated’) or the opposition leaders- but shutting down the NEWSPAPER!!!! How dare he- time for him to go.
Note to Castro- keep the damned papers running on you are in a heap of big trouble.