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Weekly Media Updates 2008
Weekly Media Update 2008-29
MMPZ notes with concern the alarming increase in the difficulties the population is experiencing in accessing information as a result of the country’s intensifying economic decay.
Newspapers, particularly alternative ones, have become luxury commodities as they have been basically priced beyond the reach
Weekly Media Update 2008-29
MMPZ notes with concern the alarming increase in the difficulties the population is experiencing in accessing information as a result of the country’s intensifying economic decay.
Newspapers, particularly alternative ones, have become luxury commodities as they have been basically priced beyond the reach
Weekly Media Update 2008-30
Although the government media have in recent weeks toned down their vituperative attacks on the opposition following the signing of the power-sharing deal between ZANU PF and the MDC, they remain intolerant to divergent views, particularly those that question the proposed inclusive government.
This was clearly
Weekly Media Update 2008-32
MMPZ notes with concern the harassment of journalists by MDC security personnel using the same draconian media laws the opposition has repeatedly condemned and pledged to reform once in power.
Weekly Media Update 2008-33
The official media’s status as slavish megaphones of the ZANU PF government was affirmed by their biased coverage of the ZANU PF/MDC power sharing agreement.
Weekly Media Update 2008-34
This week the official media’s reluctance to expose the authorities’ continued rights violations was underscored by their coverage of court cases involving government opponents. They either suffocated or censored them.
Weekly Media Update 2008-35
MMPZ is concerned that despite commitments to political tolerance advocated in the power-sharing agreement signed between ZANU PF and the two MDC formations in September, the ZANU PF authorities continue to persecute perceived critics.
Ironically, the latest attack on Zimbabweans’ basic freedoms occurred
Weekly Media Update 2008-36
The government media’s professional dishonesty was again illustrated this week by their blatant distortions of topical events that evidently indicated the authorities’ loss of control of the country’s affairs.
For example, instead of attempting to establish the full extent of the cholera epide
Weekly Media Update 2008-37
The government media’s unreliability as trustworthy sources of information was underlined by their reluctance to inform their audiences on issues that reflected badly on the ZANU PF government.
This week, they again turned a blind eye to state rights violations, which continued to expose ZANU PF&rs
Weekly Media Update 2008-38
The government-controlled media’s distorted reporting of the authorities’ decision to ban the visit by three members of the internationally respected Elders group once again exposed the extreme paranoia that exists among Zimbabwe’s ruling elite – and their evident state of denial about the country’s deepening humanitarian crisis.
