Media under fire over biased reportage

THE Media Monitoring Project of Zimbabwe (MMPZ) has challenged local media outlets to play their constitutional role of giving equal coverage to all political parties and players, so as to enable the electorate to make informed choices in next month’s general elections.

Over 133 political parties have registered to contest in the upcoming elections to be held on July 30, but only Zanu PF and MDC-T were, according to MMPZ, receiving more coverage at the expense of other parties.

“Reporting of second day of the official election period shows very little effort on the part of the media to give equitable coverage to all political parties and players as required by the electoral laws of Zimbabwe.

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