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Weekly Media Updates 2001
Weekly Media update 2001 - 50
The week witnessed ZANU PF’s annual conference receiving live coverage on ZBC television and radio from the 13th to the 16th. The conference gobbled almost half the news airtime in the three days - taking 56 minutes (38%) out of 148 minutes allocated to ZBCTV’s 8pm news. As a result, most of the news consisted of speech pronouncements from Zanu PF officials.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 49
The state media continued to plumb new depth of propaganda in their coverage of the passing of the Zimbabwe Democracy and Economic Recovery Bill by the United States House of Representatives. Both ZBC and the public press led by The Herald misinformed, deliberately or otherwise, its audiences on the Bill.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 48
The week witnessed government’s endorsement of yet another draconian piece of legislation, termed the Public Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Bill to deal with perceived wayward journalists.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 47
The government, quoted in the Herald, labelled six journalists and a human rights activist as “terrorist” supporters – making the practice of journalism just that bit more difficult and dangerous.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 46
ZANU PF’s propaganda in the state media plumbed unprecedented depths during the coverage of the murder of Cain Nkala, the Bulawayo war veteran’s leader. The state media exposed their total disregard for the general standards and ethics of journalism to churn out inflammatory hate speech reminiscent of the hate radio before and during the genocide in Rwanda.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 45
The harassment of Associated Newspapers of Zimbabwe (Private) Limited, publishers of The Daily News, continued in the week. The paper’s editor-in-chief, Geoffrey Nyarota, and the company’s founding Chief Executive Officer, Wilf Mbanga, were arrested, detained and subsequently appeared in court.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 44
The week provided ample evidence that the recent changes and restructuring in the government-controlled media engineered by the Ministry of Information are now paying dividends.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 43
This week the Media Monitoring Project focuses its attention on the media coverage of the visit by the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group to Zimbabwe to assess the progress being made towards the implementation of the conditions set out in the Abuja agreement signed in the Nigerian capital on September 6th between Britain and Zimbabwe.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 41
News of the reintroduction of price controls on basic commodities dominated the week, but none of the media has yet provided the public with any coherent breakdown of the costs involved in producing a loaf of bread, the commodity the public missed most when it all but disappeared.
Weekly Media update 2001 - 42
The President’s official announcement that his government had “dumped” ESAP dominated Zimpapers and ZBC during the week, but none of them explained that government had effectively abandoned the policy years ago.
