After being banned for eight years the Daily News paper is going to return on March 25th when it starts publishing again. The daily paper was banned because of the criticism of President Robert Mugabe. The paper fought with the presidents government for a long time. Relaxing the strict press rules are in action, but with elections coming up tension is rising. They have a power sharing goverment and President Mugabe and his rival Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai have completely different views. Zimbabwe's media is very controlled, there are no privately owned radios or television's in the country.
I found this interesting because our media in the United States post anything and everything. We always talk about how our media influences our children and everything from lies to truth is posted. What would it be like in the United States if we had government control over our media? Do you think a lot of information posted wouldn't be allowed. That also would go agaisnt our freedom of speech and I believe a lot of angry people would rebel against this control over the media. Although, we do have certain types of media control because of certian viewers like the porn industry sets an age limit of 18years old.
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