BOTSWANA: Government Blitz to Promote Media Act
source: The Zimbabwean
Friday, 06 March 2009
BY AUBREY LUTE
The Ministry of Communications Science and Technology has marshaled a team of about twenty reporters to defend the Media Practitioners’ Act – by “informing and educating the public about the Act”.
The Ministry held a workshop on Tuesday aimed at “establishing a common understanding of the Media Practitioners’ Act which has been bashed by both the local and international private media as ploy by government to interfere in the private media operations.”
Five reporters each from the Botswana Press Agency (BOPA), Radio Botswana, Botswana Television (Btv) and the Government Communication and Systems Office, will be tutored to write “positive stories about the Media Practitioners’ Act”.
Top government spokesperson Dr. Jeff Ramsay, a historian who took an interest in the media after arriving in Botswana many years ago and relentlessly pursued a government appointment as a media expert until he was appointed Press Secretary in the Office of the President by President Mogae, was scheduled to [continue reading]
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