The media’s tendency to react only to latest government policies without adequate follow-up on those stories has resulted in fundamental issues escaping informed scrutiny. For example, last year on March 5^th, three days before the presidential elections, President Mugabe used his presidential powers to enact the amendments to the Electoral Act, which the Supreme Cour

The Media Monitoring Project deplores recent incidents in which journalists from the privately owned Press have been harassed and assaulted by state security agents.Any attack on media workers conducting their business in a lawful and peaceful manner must be condemned in the strongest terms because it stifles the flow of information to the public and therefore undermines the nation’s demo

One of the highlights of the week under review was an entertaining Herald editorial (6/2) in which it tried to defend the paper’s earlier distortions of the comments of two foreign envoys. Normal journalistic practice requires that media organizations that publish such distortions apologize to the aggrieved parties.

It is normal for media to have different interpretations of topical issues. The end product of this is editorial diversity, the cornerstone of press freedom. However, it is a serious violation of ethical journalistic practice to distort and misrepresent factual events and statements in order to reinforce a particular political position.