Moyo sheds crocodile tears for press freedom
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has criticised the police for preventing journalists from marching to mark World Press Freedom Day over the weekend.
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Information Minister Jonathan Moyo has criticised the police for preventing journalists from marching to mark World Press Freedom Day over the weekend.
The 11th hour cancellation and effective disruption by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) of the official 2014 commemoration of World Press Freedom Day that had been organised by the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) in conjunction with the UNESCO office in Harare with the support of the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services along with that of other stakeholders can only be most unfortunate not least because initially ZRP had rightly sanctioned the national commemoration which has been an annual international event under the auspices of the United·Nations since 1993.
As Zimbabwe joins other countries in marking the 20th anniversary of the ‘Declaration of Windhoek’ also known as World Press Freedom Day, a local media body has called for the establishment of a genuine and professional broadcasting commission.
Acres of overtly partisan opinion pieces, defamatory stories where the victims of hate speech are never given the chance to defend themselves stand testimony to the poisonous, corrosive and divisive journalism now practiced at the state print media
Harare- The United States Embassy and local media partners on Tuesday hailed the contribution of newspaper vendors to press freedom, noting that they are on the sometimes dangerous frontlines of promoting press freedom by making information available to citizens.