Comments on: Ethiopia Updates http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/01/23/ethiopia-updates/ EthanZ's musings on Africa, media and international development Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:45:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » From the Ethiopian blogosphere http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2006/01/23/ethiopia-updates/comment-page-1/#comment-7334 Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » From the Ethiopian blogosphere Wed, 08 Feb 2006 17:35:44 +0000 http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/?p=342#comment-7334 [...] Meskel Square reported on the decision; …My heart’s in Accra worried about the long term implications for media coverage in the country; ET Blogs & Diaries thought the expulsion would at least provoke other mainstream journalists to step up their coverage of the country; and Weichegud! ET Politics was brilliantly “outraged”. Seriously. I know as an Imperial-Derg revanchist/chauvinist/cyber warrior in the Diaspora I am in no position to be giving advice to the EPRDF’s unlettered apprentices, but… what the fuck! Which EPRDF apparatchik thought it was a stroke of brilliance to kick out Anthony? Now whenever the over-fraught, half-wit EPRDF schlemiels are paraded out to defend the government (or beg for food), they will be confronted by indignant ferenjie reporters who are outraged, I tell you, outraged. [...] [...] Meskel Square reported on the decision; …My heart’s in Accra worried about the long term implications for media coverage in the country; ET Blogs & Diaries thought the expulsion would at least provoke other mainstream journalists to step up their coverage of the country; and Weichegud! ET Politics was brilliantly “outraged”. Seriously. I know as an Imperial-Derg revanchist/chauvinist/cyber warrior in the Diaspora I am in no position to be giving advice to the EPRDF’s unlettered apprentices, but… what the fuck! Which EPRDF apparatchik thought it was a stroke of brilliance to kick out Anthony? Now whenever the over-fraught, half-wit EPRDF schlemiels are paraded out to defend the government (or beg for food), they will be confronted by indignant ferenjie reporters who are outraged, I tell you, outraged. [...]

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