Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. – Harriet Van Horne
Only al-Jazeera is allowed to report from Zimbabwe, but it is unwatchable. Their Zimbabwean reporter Supa Mandiwanzira was one of Zanu-PF’s praise-singers at the reviled Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation. – Petina Gappah
Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. – Rupert Murdoch
