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Weekly Media Updates 2007
Weekly Media Update 2007-40
News this week that the state had withdrawn ‘terror’ charges against all but one of 26 MDC activists finally put to rest any doubt that the government-controlled media was used as the mainspring of a massive propaganda campaign earlier this year to portray the political opposition as a violent organization bent on illegally overthrowing the government.
The Herald
The Media Update 2007-43
DURING the week Zimbabwe’s dominant government-controlled media failed to provide important information about the state’s preparations for next year’s elections.
For example, they completely ignored news about problems that raised doubts about the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission’s capacity to run the elections.
The Media Update 2007-42
News that government has chosen to ignore the findings of the High Court by retaining Tafataona Mahoso as chairman of a ‘reconstituted’ Media and Information Commission (MIC) seems to prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the authorities lack the political will to allow the banned Daily News back on the streets before next year’s elections. Last year, the High C
The Media Update 2007-41
During the week under review the government again promised to relinquish its stranglehold on Zimbabwe’s airwaves by inviting new broadcasting applications, this time by the end of the year.
The Media Update 2007-39
The government media’s disturbing failure to act as diligent watchdogs of Zimbabweans’ fundamental rights, especially ahead of next year’s elections, was illustrated by their willful censorship of ongoing politically motivated human rights abuses against perceived government critics. Only the private media exposed these violations.
Weekly Media Update 38
MMPZ is concerned about revelations in the private media that government planned to stalk 15 Zimbabwean journalists from the private media, which it accuses of working with “hostile anti-Zimbabwean Western governments”.
The Media Update 2007-37
Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) boss Henry Muradzikwa has confirmed the widespread perception that the national broadcaster is a propaganda tool of government.
The Media Update 2007-36
MMPZ welcomes government plans to set up rural information centres and mobile van units, presumably to address the information gap and communication needs of the people.
The Media Update 2007-35
DOUBTS were raised this week over the mainstream domestic media’s capacity to fulfil its watchdog role when they failed to report the murder by suspected ruling party supporters of Jabulani Chiwoka, an MDC candidate in next year’s rural district council elections.The murder, a reflection of the politically motivated violence that has marred election campaigns since the formation o
The Media Update 2007-34
The Media Monitoring Project welcomes the acquittal of journalist Gift Phiri, who was facing charges of contravening a section of the notorious AIPPA law that demands that journalists be registered with the government-run Media and Information Commission (MIC) before practicing in the country. Private media reports (28 and 31/8) showed that Phiri – accused of writing for British-ba
