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Weekly Media Reviews 2011
Weekly Media Review 2011-46
ELECTION WATCH
ZANU PF steps up campaign
PRESIDENT Mugabe’s ZANU PF party appears to have stepped up its
elections campaign activities by joining the MDC-T in holding party
promotional events throughout the country to woo the electorate ahead of
potential national elections next year.
Up until now, ZANU PF’s campaign activities had been largely limited to the
Weekly Media Review 2011 - 47
BARELY a week after the disputed Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe (BAZ) courted controversy by awarding the country’s first ever free-to-air independent national commercial radio station licences to two companies linked to ZANU PF, the authority was making headlines again with advertisements seeking applications for more, free-to-air local commercial radio broadcasters.
Weekly Media Review 2011-45
New broadcasters likely to tighten State media’s stranglehold
COMMENT
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-38
IN an attempt to present ZANU PF as right in its conflict with the West on various issues and as still popular in the region, the national broadcaster, ZBC, distorted or selectively reported on the views of some members of the international community about ZANU PF’s policies.
This was evident in three stories ZBC carried this week.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-37
IN an attempt to minimize the damage caused by criticism of the ZANU PF leadership by some of the party’s senior officials contained in hundreds of classified US diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe and released by controversial whistle-blowing website Wikileaks, the state controlled papers ignored the latest cables exposing this, while highlighting those disclosing similar problems in the MDC-T.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-36
THE outbreak of violence at Parliament Building on September 6th during the official opening of the Fourth Session of the Seventh Parliament of Zimbabwe made headlines in all the print media in a week that was once again dominated by further disclosures of confidential US diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe by controversial whistle-blowing website Wikileaks.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-35
THE latest release of over hundred confidential US diplomatic cables on Zimbabwe by the controversial whistle-blowing website, Wikileaks, made headlines at the weekend.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-34
THE expulsion of Libyan ambassador Taher Elmagrahi from Zimbabwe for violating diplomatic protocol by defecting to the rebel Libyan government, which has taken over control of most of that country, made headlines in the electronic media this week.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-33
THE death of retired national army commander, General Solomon Mujuru, in a mysterious fire at his Beatrice farmstead 60km south of Harare sparked a storm of speculation, especially in the private media.
Mujuru was reported to have died when the homestead at his Alamein Farm caught fire in the early hours of Tuesday, August 16th.
Weekly Media Review Summary 2011-32
THE outbreak of riots in London, the British capital, on August 6th (and subsequently around the country), presented the ZANU PF arm of government and the state media it controls with another opportunity to vilify Britain, urging it to stop interfering in other countries’ domestic affairs and concentrate on solving its own internal problems.
