New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has an op-ed in the paper today about the political crisis in Zimbabwe that is full of the usual clichés with him as daring journalist hero. He had to disguise himself as a tourist, among other things. This is of course despite the fact that–harassment from elements within the Zimbabwean regime aside–most journalists, including that of CNN and Al Jazeera or correspondents based in neighboring South Africa, have been going in and out of Zimbabwe and reporting from there without any difficulty.
Though Kristof dispenses with the idea that the major victims of Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF’s pogroms are white, he spends much of the column highlighting the fact that local blacks felt things were better under white, racist rule.
