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Ranson Madzamba Correspondent
The editors of the private media are more of opposition political commissars than media personnel. On a daily basis they manufacture news that creates disorder and confusion.
Upon entering a journalism school in Zimbabwe, one is taught such courses as media laws and ethics. This is done as a way of coming up with a crop of principled journalists who focus on informing, entertaining as well as educating the populace on a number of issues and for the benefit of the country and society at large.
Looking at the Zimbabwean private media, it would appear a majority of the editors are more of politicians than journalists.
They have become mouthpieces of the mushrooming political outfits.
They have forgotten the main functions of the media.
Indeed, they are losing the plot.
The editors of the private media are more of opposition political commissars than media personnel. On a daily basis they manufacture news that creates disorder and confusion. They are eager to see the demise of zanu-pf, the ruling party.
They are after the President and the First Family. Indeed, they are after zanu-pf and all its endeavours.
They peddle falsehoods about the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe.
She has actually been described as someone with Presidential ambitions by the private media.
Recently, she was portrayed as someone campaigning for the Vice President’s post. All the stories lacked authenticity.
The First Lady is also reported to be at loggerheads with the Vice President Cde Emmerson Mnangagwa since they are covertly allegedly vying for the Presidency post. All these are lies and imaginations of the political commissars-cum-editors of the private press.
The private media have created factions within the zanu-pf party. They, on daily basis, talk of the Mnangagwa camp and the G40 camp which they purport the First Lady and the likes of Cdes Kasukuwere, Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao belong to.
The First Lady during her rallies in Mbare, Mberengwa and Murehwa made it clear that she was in good books with Vice President Mnangagwa and has got much so respect for him and has even more things to learn from him.
This was indeed a shock for the political commissars in the newsrooms for they are now forced to go back on the drawing board and start to manufacture other lies since the one they were much focusing on has being exposed and now useless.
Yes, Vice President Cde Mnangagwa accompanied the First Lady to her rallies and could be noticed giving respect to the First Lady whom he occasionally prefers to call “Mambokadzi”.
At one other point it was said Vice President Mnangagwa and the First Lady were enemies who hardly talk to each other, but to the surprise of many especially the political commissars-cum-politicians, the First Lady, Dr Amai Mugabe said she sometimes borrows milk from Cde Mnangagwa whom she described as a close friend of the First Family and a long time friend indeed.
Where and how the private media manufactures its news is so astonishing in Zimbabwe.
The First Lady exposed the lies of the private media and it is a big shame for they have been writing falsehoods for far too long. They have manufactured falsehoods to please their political god fathers in the name of opposition political parties.
The private media have already predicted the outcome of the coming zanu-pf conference in Victoria Falls. They started lying that they are going to be elections and the First Lady again exposed the lies.
Journalism ethics require journalists to report authentic issues and with evidence. The brown envelope syndrome seems to be the norm in private media newsrooms such that they have forgotten their core businesses as media houses.
They are used as regime change agenda mouthpieces. They write to please their masters. They lie to please their masters. Such is the way they are generating money for their survival but it is uncalled for and the law is supposed to take its course against those who manufacture as well as publish falsehoods.
Online Reporter