DREAD IT INNA ZIMBABWE: The Associated Press is reporting that Zimbabwe is banning some foreign reporters from covering the upcoming presidential elections. Robert Mugabe had this to say:

"The independent media are most of them liars, downright liars. They fabricate news, exaggerate news, they manufacture news," Mugabe said on state television Sunday night. "The independent papers publish stories criticizing me, demonizing me. Why don't we arrest them?"

This press crackdown has been going on for months, and FAIR, which is so sensitive to the slightest whiff of censorship by the corporate-controlled media, hasn't said a word about the situation in Zimbabwe. The major newspapers haven't said a whole lot about it, either, though they get all worked up about the Pentagon potentially planting the occasional red herring in the foreign press.