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Please allow me to air my views regarding politicians reading news on public or private media; this is in a case where Former Parliamentarian Hon Dora Siliya was given a space by MUVI TV on Tuesday the 31st December 2013 which was described as a gift to charity.
I think it is not ethical for a politician to be in the driving seat to cast news considering of the many contents which are found in most media reports.
Dora Siliya was reading news on MUVI TV last evening of 31st December 2013 – She is still a politician and indeed it is very unethical for her to be a journalist when she still has some political interests.
Precisely for argument sake, our African news at most times are about politicians saying this or that.
Objectively, Dora is a still a politician who other politicians don’t have a similar liking because if it was you being an opposition member you would not like to view her or what happens if there is a bad reporting about her in that piece of news it becomes totally difficulty for her to defend it.
Politicians are professionals in their own rights, the conducts of journalism does not marry to put the two together no wonder information bill is still a political theorem during campaigns by most politicians.
But look at it in a more objective manner because my points are that she can’t entertain other audiences may be only a fraction of interested parties in the society, the tenets of democracy requires that media houses are politically free. If you are looking at the opposition as well or what will become of news if other parties like President Sata and president HH or President Chipimo are not interested to listen to Dora?
- See more at: http://ukzambians.co.uk/home/2014/01/02/dora-siliya-should-not-be-reading-news-on-muvi-tv-letter/#sthash.yc9KX72b.dpuf
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