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Weekly Media Update 2010-37
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday Septmber 20th - Sunday September 26th 2010
October 01, 2010

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President Mugabe's visit to New York to attend the 65th session of the UN General Assembly attracted most attention in the government media.

Although the public media highlighted what was discussed at the meeting, particularly ways of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), it failed to question the truth of Mugabe's claims that Western sanctions were the major reason why Zimbabwe was unlikely to meet the goals.

The private papers focused on the bloated nature of Mugabe's delegation and comments by the US government that it would not lift sanctions against Zimbabwe until there was evidence of democratic reforms.

Although all the media publicized endless administrative problems affecting the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee's outreach consultative programme, the government media ignored glaring incidents of political violence against perceived critics of the ZANU PF arm of government. Fig. 1 illustrates this.

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