Summary: In Zimbabwe for the past seven years they have only posted a government owned and operated news paper, the Herald. Through this newspaper the Zimbabwean President Mugabe has been able to supervise what goes into the newspaper. This was a form of propaganda in Zimbabwe, only saying nice things about the president and his political party. But recently there have been two new news papers about to begin publishing, both privately owned which means that Mugabe can no longer control everything that goes into these newspapers. One of the news papers, called the Daily News, was shut down seven years ago by the police. These new papers will definatly prove to be some competition for the Herald, and will bring Zimbabwe even closer to a democratic society.
Opinion: I think that after the people in Zimbabwe read these new news papers will get a different side to the stories, not just what the government whats them to read. But i think the writers and editors of these papers better be very careful about what is put into these newspapers because if they over step their boundaries by even just a little bit the government will immediately shut them down and they will just be even farther away from the democracy that this society is wanting.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/world/africa/28zimbabwe.html
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