Word: buerk
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...week after the new regulations went into effect, many foreign journalists continued to be baffled by them. "We still are not certain where the boundaries really lie," said Michael Buerk, a correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation. After two black men were killed by police outside Cape Town, early police reports and accounts provided differing versions of how the incident started. Reporters pointedly reminded readers and viewers that the new restrictions made it difficult to confirm their stories. In Johannesburg, the Foreign Correspondents Association strongly denounced the restrictions. The F.C.A. warned that forcing the media to operate within such stringent...