By Daily Revelation Editor
The election season is already in full swing. Even before the dissolution of Parliament, there is already plenty of activity in political space.
Political leaders of political parties are traversing the country now, combining campaigning, while at the same time identifying candidates to contest for various positions. Others like President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND are receiving defections, while projecting some, like those who have been known to have defected a long time ago but are constantly announcing it to make it sound new. We have in mind Kasama-Central member of parliament Sibongile Mwamba and crew.
For some in the opposition they are still in last minute efforts trying to find a way of piecing the seemingly unmatched pieces together in what appears like futile attempts at major opposition unity.
But while all that is happening, there is very little that is filtering through in terms of the overriding public interest of why these politicians are vying for office. And that status quo is likely to remain until the media and society begin to ask the hard questions to those aspiring to lead them.
But this will require an uncompromised media to achieve. While that is required for the private media to live up to, and they should definitely aspire to live up to that, more actually should be demanded from the public media. We say so because the public media institutions are state institutions that should serve the interests of everybody in the country, whether ruling party or opposition. They are not an exclusive mouthpiece for the ruling party, and they should used to exclusively serve ruling party interests while vilifying and demonising those in the opposition.
And we appeal to President Hakainde Hichilema to revisit his repeated sentiments during his period as President-elect that he was going to allow the public media to cover everybody so that those in the opposition do not face the same discrimination he faced during his opposition times. The President-elect then actually said that the only people who feared giving a voice to the opposition were those who were not confident in their performance. He said he was going to ensure opposition voices in public media platforms as their voicing was going to be made irrelevant because of his wonderful achievements and performance.
However, those pronouncements are far from the reality people are seeing from the public media right now, where opposition voices have been consigned to extreme footnotes. We hope this will change going forward, although we retain little hope of the same happening.
Usually, society benefits more when exposed to divergence in the news coverage. People need to have the benefit to make decisions based on the much they have heard from the competing actors, rather than from the extremely censored little information.
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By Daily Revelation Editor
The election season is already in full swing. Even before the dissolution of Parliament, there is already plenty of activity in political space.
Political leaders of political parties are traversing the country now, combining campaigning, while at the same time identifying candidates to contest for various positions. Others like President Hakainde Hichilema and the UPND are receiving defections, while projecting some, like those who have been known to have defected a long time ago but are constantly announcing it to make it sound new. We have in mind Kasama-Central member of parliament Sibongile Mwamba and crew.
For some in the opposition they are still in last minute efforts trying to find a way of piecing the seemingly unmatched pieces together in what appears like futile attempts at major opposition unity.
But while all that is happening, there is very little that is filtering through in terms of the overriding public interest of why these politicians are vying for office. And that status quo is likely to remain until the media and society begin to ask the hard questions to those aspiring to lead them.
But this will require an uncompromised media to achieve. While that is required for the private media to live up to, and they should definitely aspire to live up to that, more actually should be demanded from the public media. We say so because the public media institutions are state institutions that should serve the interests of everybody in the country, whether ruling party or opposition. They are not an exclusive mouthpiece for the ruling party, and they should used to exclusively serve ruling party interests while vilifying and demonising those in the opposition.
And we appeal to President Hakainde Hichilema to revisit his repeated sentiments during his period as President-elect that he was going to allow the public media to cover everybody so that those in the opposition do not face the same discrimination he faced during his opposition times. The President-elect then actually said that the only people who feared giving a voice to the opposition were those who were not confident in their performance. He said he was going to ensure opposition voices in public media platforms as their voicing was going to be made irrelevant because of his wonderful achievements and performance.
However, those pronouncements are far from the reality people are seeing from the public media right now, where opposition voices have been consigned to extreme footnotes. We hope this will change going forward, although we retain little hope of the same happening.
Usually, society benefits more when exposed to divergence in the news coverage. People need to have the benefit to make decisions based on the much they have heard from the competing actors, rather than from the extremely censored little information.
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