- AP Photo/Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi
- Former congressman Mel Reynolds appears at the magistrate’s court in Harare, Zimbabwe, on Wednesday.
The not-so-shocking, perhaps-even-amusing news that hapless former congressman Mel Reynolds has been arrested in Zimbabwe for alleged possession of pornography got big play in Wednesday’s Sun-Times (here and here and here) and more modest treatment in the Tribune, but both papers relied heavily on reporting in Zimbabwe’s Herald, a state-controlled daily.
Reporters Without Borders goes farther. It’s posted an “indictment” that accuses Mugabe of “suppressing freedom of expression . . . exercising strict control over the state media . . . constantly harassing the privately-owned print media . . . introducing laws that have drastically curtailed media freedom . . . placing reporters and editors under surveillance . . . having opposition activists and journalists arrested . . .”
