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Around Africa - Zimbabwe - Criticism of British mass media
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Mugabe 2, Britain 0.
Like Manchester United scoring at the death against the run of play, President Robert Mugabe put two past Britain in early March when he was received in Belgium and France despite desperate British lobbying to pull the red carpet from under his feet.
Two weeks to the visit, Britain (at least its media) had stepped up the campaign against Mugabe, using Zimbabwe's recent deportation of a BBC freelance journalist as the catalyst. For two weeks, beginning from 19 February, the British media ran scathing articles aga...See the full content of this document
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