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Editorial: Zambians Should Brace For More Propaganda
ZAMBIANS should brace themselves for more severe, savage and downright hate speech intended to achieve regime change in 2016 if not sooner.
The stakes are extremely high. Those who have lost power, patronage and control are determined to reverse their loss. They will do everything to vilify and demonize any impediment that stands in their way to State House control.
Propaganda in its most brazen manner is the mode of choice. The country stands helplessly as the select group of hate purveyors take turns to malign, vilify and spew vitriol at will. Daily the fountain of evil spews unbridled pique.
Not even the Zambia Media Council (ZAMEC) that was supposed to safeguard media professionalism from predatory and selfish interest can stem the tide.
ZAMEC was well intended, just as the other media organizations in the country including the Press Association of Zambia (PAZA) that should be concerned with the practice of journalism but both are moribund and totally unable to register their presence in the unfolding cauldron of hate and malice.
As a self regulating body ZAMEC was supposed to stop journalists from using their professional status as representatives of the public, for selfish or other unworthy motives, which violated public trust.
It is now apparent and very clear that trust has not only been violated but that the very media freedom that is intended to promote diversity has been abused for sectarian propaganda through hate speech and blatant parading of individuals and institutions of sectarian rather than national interest.
ZAMEC had very high sounding ideals namely that journalists should at all times defend the principle of the freedom of the press in relation to the collection of information and the expression of comment and criticism. Sadly the reverse is actually true.
The public that has a right to know the truth is instead being fed on sheer propaganda with information that is not researched but deliberately twisted to influence, prejudice and plant hatred and disaffection.
Contrary to the ZAMEC code headlines that should be fully warranted by content are more often than not bold statements of hate that have little to do with prominence importance or substance of the material covered. The headlines are meant to sell rather than educate.
The strategy now is the use of yellow journalism which is a form or reporting that is designed to malign and vilify an opponent without any substantive information or justification.
Posted by
Pwanya Nini
July 13, 2015 at 5:17 pm
Its ZWD & the Post that have forced medias like Zambia Reports & Tumfweko to propaganda-back due to the hatred exhibited towards EL by HH & Fred M’membe courtesy of Tongas/Bantu Botatwe & UPND otherwise there would be no propaganda like we are seeing from these f^cking medias.
FODESANKO
July 13, 2015 at 7:23 pm
Just concetrate on the Vargina you have declared to hammer. Pf,you are total failures,even God has rejected you through Loadshading. Idiots! Am back,brace yourselves.
kakolwe
July 13, 2015 at 5:35 pm
At the point where you target “those that lost” you too become a propagandist. Boyi, twalishiba Kale. If these gurus of doomsday were effective, their choice candidates could have been in state house today. They can fart all they want until their arses become green, Zambia knows best. Simple EL aleteka beyond 2016. Watchimbwa + post, tried, tried & tried: Next year shall be a culmination of their “kingmaker determining”
Hello Haters
July 13, 2015 at 6:45 pm
going to hug a transformer right now due to “LOW WATER LEVELS” at kariba is this propaganda sir?
kakolwe
July 13, 2015 at 6:50 pm
No Sir! That is not propaganda. It is improperganda!! Asking Bembas to line up the banks & urinate into the lake until the levels rise would be!
Hello Haters
July 13, 2015 at 6:13 pm
Good cold evening “mr alarmist” a point of correction “sir” it’s called investigative journalism, unfortunately yours is spreading falsehoods and alarmism, we also know your preferred choice and only time will tell, forgive me for intruding in your secretive schemes but that’s a fact, so enjoy your bumpy ride as we move forward towards 2016, till we derail your preferred choice.
mufetu
July 13, 2015 at 7:07 pm
I smell a George mpombo in this article! In Tanzania before major elections albinos go in hiding for fear of being killed for good luck charms.Before elections murder of albinos skyrocket. At least we have character assassination here which is also common in US before elections! Nez where are you?
The jew
July 13, 2015 at 8:45 pm
No comment
meanwhile..........Mwenye's
July 13, 2015 at 9:16 pm
Family of 6 hacked to death for witchcraft in India
An Indian couple and four of their children were hacked to death by a mob of villagers who accused them of practicing witchcraft and making their children sick, The victims were asleep in their mud house in the hamlet of Lahanda in Keonjhar district, when a group of around five people armed with axes broke in.
The suspects, believed to be relatives of the family, accused the victims of being behind for a spate of frequent illnesses among infants in the village
“People believe in superstition because they do not have health care. They are uneducated. Unless we provide them these basic facilities, the situation will not improve,” said secretary of the Odisha Rationalist Society, a charity.
New Educated Zambia©
July 13, 2015 at 9:30 pm
There is no propaganda in the fuel price increase due at midnight tomorrow. Pf has failed you
mj banda
July 14, 2015 at 12:29 am
It’s normal, everywhere fuel and electricity is in shumbles bro.
The spartacus
July 14, 2015 at 4:09 am
Any objective or factual reporting coming frm opposition this tym is propaganda, when PF was on th podium as opposition under th late Sata R.i.p th case was seen differently.. It is disheartening to note that there’s no opposition that can give sleepless nights to ECL as Sata did to late Levy R.i.p and RB..kuwayawayafye
observer
July 14, 2015 at 7:05 am
if you’re coming to Zambia for the first time you can think that the opposition are very strong when you read some media sources like mwinjimfumu and zambia rabid dog. but nkanshi kuwayawayafye. come election kubanyankula.
major chileshe
July 14, 2015 at 9:28 am
Ndeloleshafye
charity tengeleko
July 14, 2015 at 10:03 am
ummmmmmm iliko bad coment reserved for lunch