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The Poverty of Civil Libertarianism
Herald and Evening Post by burning old copies. ANC spokesman Phila
Nkayi said the papers were waging "malicious" attacks on the organisation.
"The media is at liberty to criticise the ANC-led alliance, but we
could not take the vilification and bossy stance that appears to have been
adopted.. . ." Editor Derek Smith said the Herald would "not become an
ANC paper" or be dictated to. But on the first full day of the boycott the
newspapers' management approached the ANC for talks, and the South
African Union of Journalists branch also sought to negotiate. Weekly Mail
4 (July 31, 1992).
A week after the opening of "Minbo noOnna" (Woman Mob Fighter), a
film about yakuza (gangsters), director Juzo Itami was attacked by three
men in front of his house, who slashed him in the face, neck and hand.
New York Times A1 (June 15, 1992). One reporter for the Asahi newspaper
was murdered in 1987 and another seriously wounded. The Tokyo
Broadcasting System received 140,000 protests after it criticised the
Unification Church. The office of a magazine that criticised Kofuku no
Kagaku (Institute for Research in Human Happiness) was attacked. Los
Angeles Times H2 (October 13, 1992).
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Los Angeles Times J1 (March 14, 1991).
At the 1992 Republican National Convention the leader of the Virginia
delegation organised a group of hecklers to follow NPR reporter Nina
Totenberg around the floor, interrupting her interviews by yelling "Nina,
Nina. Have you had an affair?" This was retaliation for another woman
reporter who had asked Bush about an affair. When Democratic Party
Chairman Ron Brown and other officials tried to hold a news conference
inside a Houston restaurant, 100 members of the Republican Youth
Coalition dirsupted it. The co-chairwoman of the Republican National
Committee congratulated them: "I want to tell you all that you have really
done wonderfully. You have really kept us in the news this week. I saw
you take on the other side's rally the other day and that was great." The
field director of the College Republican National Committee explained:
"If the Dems are going to come to the Republic National Committee [sic]
and try to steal media attention, they should expect a little confrontation."
New York Times A12 (August 21, 1992).
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