Six newspapers get licences to publish in Zimbabwe
After years of being able to only read the party line followed by goverment mouthpieces, Zimbabweans might soon be able to read balanced reports on the state of their country and other issues.
- Times online: New papers allowed to break Mugabe's media stranglehold... Who's line is it, anyway? It's the party line... For the past few years Zimbabweans have been fed the ZANU-PF party line via the regime's tame mouthpiece after Mugabe banned any newspaper that upset him with a home truth or two. Now Zimbabweans may be able to enjoy a balanced choice of news and views after the newly constituted independent media commission announced that it had formally licensed six new newspapers, four of them dailies, to publish in Zimbabwe. It remains to be seen how Mugabe will react.
