Listening Post - Zimbabwe's media - 20 Feb 09 - Part 1

On The Listening Post this week: the power-sharing agreement in Zimbabwe and what it means for the media there. Plus, a look at the untold stories in Myanmar obscured by the catastrophic Cyclone Nargis.

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News & Politics

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• aljazeera
• the
• listening
• post
• richard
• gizbert
• zimbabwe
• power
• sharing
• morgan
• tsvangirai
• robert
• mugabe
• myanmar
• burma
• media

[bfq3000]

mugabe is such a scumbag, zimbabwe will be much better off when he's gone

[robertwc82]

brainwashed fool. you have such a limited perception of the complexities of reality. i'll make it simple. its a matter of apes wanting more bannanas so they use force and strength to take them from the other apes. some of those apes have more pigmentation in thier skin, others worship diferent imaginary freinds but in the end the only issue any of them give a fuck about is who gets the most bannanas. if the world was entirely african or earopean nothing would change, dumbshit

[MrRastafari01]

VIVA MUGABE

[06simpry]

I know. It's shocking. I never thought that the Western Media would go this far as to reporting downright lies like this. And this from Al-Jazeera. The very news organisation that was set up as a counterweight to Western opinion. The people who pride themselves on reporting "every angle, every side".

"repressive media laws". In what way is this remotely objective? This is just ridiculous.

[thehararean]

al-jaBBC

[kj474]

I'm sorry al-Jazeera, but Tsvangirai did not defeat Mugabe in any election. Tsvangirai won the first round of voting, but failed to achieve the necessary 50% of the vote to win in the first round. In the 2nd round, he was thoroughly beaten receiving 9% to Mugabe's 85%. Don't fabricate things just to suit your political stance. Report the facts please.

[beancube2008]

They can't ban guns so they can't ban cellphones. Distribute the phone to people like they are distributed in China. These devices can topple United States of America. They are that powerful when they are coupling into the Internet. If you don't have them then you don't have economy in your country.

[2observant]

As usual Mugabe changes things when and how he wants like splitting the Info ministry so that he keeps the broadcasting and media. This is as far away as a unity gov gets. South Africa I hope u are proud of the deal you implemented, the devil Mugabe, who you allow to continue feeding on the blood and suffering of Zimbos!