On World Press Freedom Day the Committee to Protect Journalists named Zimbabwe one of the worst places in the world to go about the daily business of being a journalist. And on May 2, Amnesty International released ‘Zimbabwe/Rights Under Siege’, a long, extensively documented report—largely ignored by the American print, broadcast, and cable television media. This report stated: "State repression of the media has never been worse. Prior to independence, the media was strictly controlled by the [white] government of Ian Smith through the use of restrictive legislation to defeat the nationalist movement…However, the past three years have seen a sharp escalation in the government's hostility towards the independent media…”