Moyo: Jail for 'lying scribes' - media

[dArKeR]

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe - Zimbabwe Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has warned that the country has enough prison space for local journalists who peddle "lies" in the foreign media.

Moyo told journalists late on Friday that the media was the next enemy that needed to be dealt with after the government had finished with its anti-corruption campaign in the financial sector.

"President Mugabe has said our main enemy is the financial sector but the other enemy is the media who use the pen to lie about this country. Such reporters are terrorists and the position on how to deal with terrorists is to subject them to the laws of Zimbabwe," Moyo said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-259_1520701,00.html

Can we send Murdoch, FOX, CNN, Welch, Novak, Fineman, Limbaugh to Zimbabwe for justice?

[Nlighten1]

1. This sort of talk must really make the journalists in Zim very scared.

I have no love for the media in America but if our President said something like that I wouldn't like it.

[Sinistrous]

2. I get a very strong impression that Moyo is equating lies with

not toeing Mugabe's line and abjectly supporting his policies/programs/positions.

Moyo's statment is a very dark one, indeed.

[liberalhistorian]

3. That's exactly what he's doing,

it's his way of frightening them into strictly toeing the party line. I see the same thing beginning to happen here, and I fear it won't be long before the Bushistas try to push the envelope with it.

And given the low esteem with which most Americans hold the press, and the fact that a far-too-high percentage of them think the press has TOO MUCH FREEDOM (WTF?), they just might be able to get away with it.

[w4rma]

4. Governments often define lies as not parroting the government's lies.

Imho, It is never good to give a government power to decide who is lying in the press and who isn't, except through jury trials (I think).

[Democat]

5. Everyone at Fox News will be rounded up and jailed?

How sad.