adminministry, Mr Regis Chikowore at a Media Capacity Development workshop in Nyanga, Mr Charamba said the media should play a catalytic and constructive role in nation building.
“The challenge to our media industry remains one of interpreting and describing events through our own eyes as Zimbabweans as opposed to analysing and interpreting national issues using western lenses. We need to begin to interpret our own circumstances using our own news values as yardsticks instead of applying western news values,” said Mr Charamba.
Mr Charamba said though development stories invariably did not sell newspapers, that was not an excuse.
“We ignore them at our own expense that is at a cost of denying a voice to the voiceless.
“Government expects journalists to become our first line of defence in articulating who we are, what makes us tick, what makes us a proud people, resilient, patriotic, what sets us apart as a country among the community of nations,” said Mr Charamba.
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