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Monday, April 3, 1995
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Journalists under fire in West Africa
The Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Roland Martin says he wanted to boost the morale of the Sierra Leonean army, so he searched his files, found a picture of a combat-ready soldier and printed it on the front page of his newspaper.
His mistake was choosing a picture of a soldier who — unbeknownst to Martin — had defected to the rebel movement a few months earlier. Martin, editor of Freetown's Weekend Spark newspaper, was jailed on suspicion of involvement with the Revolutionary United Front.
To Sierra Leone's government, Martin's possession of the picture was enough to warrant arresting him. To Martin and other journalists in West Africa's politically volatile countries, it was another case of an embattled government silencing the news media for exposing its weaknesses.
With the region beset by civil wars, military dictatorships and economic decline, the freer press that evolved in the pro-democracy era of the late 1980s and early '90s has become increasingly muzzled.
detained in Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Sierra Leone and Nigeria in the past month. Since 1994, West African governments have deported journalists, seized dozens of magazines and newspapers and closed independent radio stations in
At least 12 journalists have been
Cameroon,
Togo, Gambia,
Mali and Gabon
Adam Feinstein, who edits a monthly publication of the International Press Institute that monitors press conditions worldwide, said the press was always a first scapegoat for governments.
"They can't blame themselves for the problems, so they have to
Nowhere has this been felt more strongly than in Ivory Coast, where five newspaper journalists were convicted over the past month of offenses ranging from insulting the president to inciting unrest. Four received sentences ranging from 10
They can't blame themselves for the problems, so they have to blame somebody
blame somebody else," he said.
else."
West African governments recently have turned to the courts rather than use overt force to silence the media.
Adam Feinstein International Press Institute
to 12 months in prison.
That outraged international media organizations and Ivory Coast journalists, who say advances made under President Fell i x Houphouet-Boigny are disappearing under his successor, Henri Bedie.
"During the time of Houphouet-
Boigny, the independent press was just starting out," said Raphael Lakpe, editor in chief of the opposition newspapers La Voie and Le Nouvel Horizon. "By the time he died, the government was beginning
to feel at ease with it. But with Bedie, it seems like we've taken 1,000 steps backward."
The Committee to Protect Journalists, which in 1994 released a report on attacks on the media, describes press freedom as having declined considerably since Bedie took office in December 1993. In Bedie's first year, seven journalists were convicted on criminal charges tied to articles.
The dark, dingy La Voie building, with cobwebs in the corners and faded paint peeling from the walls, testifies to the disadvantages faced by opposition media. Just down the road, the pro-government daily Fraternite Matin occupies a sprawling, gleaming-white compound.
Last year's 50 percent currency devaluation in the former French colonies of the region led to a doubling of prices for ink, paper and other equipment, compounding problems for the independent press. Official media were not immune — three state-owned newspapers in Congo closed — but they were able to get government subsidies not available to the independent press.
Disney-owned company strays from course
The Associated Press
ANAHEIM, Calif. — A movie featuring promiscuous teen-agers with the AIDS virus and the deflowering of 14-year-old virgins is hardly what the public associates with Walt Disney Co.
Yet those youngsters and more are integral to "Kids," which Disney's Miramax Films purchased for $3.5 million and plans to release in July.
Miramax, distributor of films that have won 13 Academy Awards since Harvey and Bob Weinstein founded the company in 1979, was acquired by Disney two years ago and operates with a great deal of autonomy.
The New York-based company is known for exploiting the stir created by provocative movies such as "Tie Me Up, Tie Me Down," which initially got an X rating from the Motion Picture Association of America. The film was eventually distributed without a rating.
Miramax already has Disney in trouble over "Priest," a film about a homosexual priest and another who has sex with his housekeeper. It scheduled the movie for release on Good Friday, then change the date after widespread protests.
The 200,000-member Cat olic League has called for a Disney ycott. The Timothy Plan, a Win r
Park, Fla., Christian mutual fund that avoids investments in companies it believes promote abortion or pornography, has added Disney to its no-buy list.
Even before Disney began expanding its entertainment agenda under Chairman Michael Eisner more than a decade ago, the company had stepped into the adult-oriented arena with the movie "Solash."
But no Disney operation ever has released a movie rated NC-17 (which means no one under 17 is admitted). Disney has told the Weinsteins to sell "Kids" or form a separate company to release it, reimbursing the $3.5 million to Miramax.
The idea that Disney, mecca of benign entertainment icons from Mickey Mouse to the Little Mermaid, also is the corporate parent of "Priest" and "Kids," gets mixed reviews from core customers.
"We're definitely Disney fans for the family attributes," says vacationing Chicago businessman Bob Price, lounging beside the Disneyland Hotel pool in Anaheim with his wife and daughter.
Yet, he says, he's also a Disney shareholder and grateful for the diversification that has pushed the company's stock price to record highs and annual revenues to $10 billion.
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