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Can Africa Sustain a Free Press? |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / COMMENTARY |
| Author: David Yeats-Thomas |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 3,831 Words, 23,119 Characters |
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There is a malaise on the African continent that has infected virtually every nation regardless of race, creed, or ideology: a chronic intolerance of an independent and critical press.
The rationale for this universal contempt for free expression is shrouded in a variety of obscure rhetoric. Whatever it is called, a ruthless control of the press has become as African as coups, military dictatorships, drought, and famine.
Thus, the international uproar kicked up by South Africa's latest restrictions on reporters' movements was surprising. Like it or not, South Africa, despite the hue of its government, is part of the African continent.
In any case, it would be a contradiction for a police/fascist state, as South Africa is reputed to be, to have a free press, however lim...
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...vid television images of protest and violent suppression that many believe helped galvanize American sentiment on South Africa have become increasingly scarce" since the imposition of the restrictions.
The opinion of most broadcast journalists, the article says, was that "if the purpose of the ban was to remove images of violence from American television screens, then it has worked."
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