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Article lacked important facts: A response to Bond and Moore
Thomas C. Mountain
April 14, 2005

http://www.pambazuka.org/index.php?id=27726

Read the original article by Patrick Bond and David Moore
Read Bond & Moore's reply to the criticism

The latest editorial in your publication on the Zim elections lacks very important information and raises questions about the level of knowledge of the writers or establishes a very disturbing bias on their part.

To start with the government of Zimbabwe provided 3.1 billionZim dollars to the opposition to cover the costs of election campaigning, with the ruling part receiving 3.3bill. Why isn-t this mentioned anywhere? Shouldn-t this fact be made known to your readers so they can make up their own minds about the veracity and accuracy of the reporting on Zimbabwe? Either the writers are ignorant of this fact or deliberately concealing it from your readership.

I am no fan of Mugabe and never have been. Yet it is hard to swallow all the disinformation passed off as journalism on the matter. Your publication does your readers a disservice by failing to provide both sides of the matter.

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