Zim bans Sky reporters - Zimbabwe

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Harare - British documentarians were banned from Zimbabwe after previously receiving clearance from top ruling party officials, according to media reports on Friday.

Information czar Jonathan Moyo ordered that the documentary team with British-based Sky News leave the country just hours after their arrival in Zimbabwe on Thursday.

The independent Daily Mirror said the trip was cleared by Zanu-PF politburo member Nathan Shamuyarira "to give the government and ruling party an opportunity to ... counter the negative publicity" allegedly broadcast by the international media.

The television programme was to include an interview with President Robert Mugabe, the newspaper said.

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/Zimbabwe/0,,2-11-259_1520481,00.html

At first I thought how terrible this was because of the lack of freedom of the press. But then I did a little investigating.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/encyclopedia/british_sky_broadcasting :: It was purchased by News Corporation, and relaunched (as Sky Television) Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation.

I wouldn't let these liars, assassins, covert operations front into my country or home either!