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Daily News chides an unnamed competitor with a myriad of problems
14 May 2014 at 16:52hrs | Views
The Daily News has chided an unnamed competitor that was spared by Zanu-PF in 2003 and benefitted immensely from Daily News's absence in the market. One wonders who the competitor is.
In an article titled 'We are the best' by Stanley Gama the Group Editor Daily News celebrates what is has done since it was re-launched on March 25, 2011.
"After suffering the unjust indignity of being the only media house to have been violently shut down for eight long years by President Robert Mugabe's government in September 2003, for the "treasonous" crime of telling the Zimbabwean story the way it should be told, nobody gave us an iota of a chance of making it when we were given the green light to re-launch our operations," said Gama.
"With neither get donor funds nor the much lusted-after loot from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, both friends and foes predicted very confidently that we would not last three months in the market from the date of our re-launch. One media house that had benefitted from our forced closure was particularly nasty towards us.
"Hardly a week passed in our first few months back then without this would-be-competitor writing patently inaccurate and malicious stories about the Daily News, the clear intention being to paralyse our organisation and discourage the market from supporting us. Their strategy simply did not work.
"And how wrong all the other pundits were!
"With a pragmatic approach of not playing to the gallery and living within our means from day one, we have not only confounded our critics, but have gone on to surpass all our initial three-year plans by a mile - to the extent that today, we are without doubt the only publishing house in Zimbabwe that is thriving commercially, without either government or donor support.
"And needless to say, the unfriendly would-be-competitor that was spared by Zanu-PF in 2003 and benefitted immensely from our absence in the market, has had nothing but trouble all these three years that we have been back.
"Of course, we just don't feel that it's worth writing stories on their myriad of problems in our newspapers as they are so pettily wont to behave when they think they can take advantage of others' insignificant challenges.
"And unlike some competitors, all adverts that readers see in all our titles are fully paid for and not discounted in any way, even in this adverse market!
Daily News said its relationship with the person they used to call the media henchman is good.
"In this light too, many Zimbabweans will have seen that our relationship with our parent minister, the minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services, Jonathan Moyo, is excellent."
In an article titled 'We are the best' by Stanley Gama the Group Editor Daily News celebrates what is has done since it was re-launched on March 25, 2011.
"After suffering the unjust indignity of being the only media house to have been violently shut down for eight long years by President Robert Mugabe's government in September 2003, for the "treasonous" crime of telling the Zimbabwean story the way it should be told, nobody gave us an iota of a chance of making it when we were given the green light to re-launch our operations," said Gama.
"With neither get donor funds nor the much lusted-after loot from the Chiadzwa diamond fields, both friends and foes predicted very confidently that we would not last three months in the market from the date of our re-launch. One media house that had benefitted from our forced closure was particularly nasty towards us.
"Hardly a week passed in our first few months back then without this would-be-competitor writing patently inaccurate and malicious stories about the Daily News, the clear intention being to paralyse our organisation and discourage the market from supporting us. Their strategy simply did not work.
"And how wrong all the other pundits were!
"With a pragmatic approach of not playing to the gallery and living within our means from day one, we have not only confounded our critics, but have gone on to surpass all our initial three-year plans by a mile - to the extent that today, we are without doubt the only publishing house in Zimbabwe that is thriving commercially, without either government or donor support.
"And needless to say, the unfriendly would-be-competitor that was spared by Zanu-PF in 2003 and benefitted immensely from our absence in the market, has had nothing but trouble all these three years that we have been back.
"Of course, we just don't feel that it's worth writing stories on their myriad of problems in our newspapers as they are so pettily wont to behave when they think they can take advantage of others' insignificant challenges.
"And unlike some competitors, all adverts that readers see in all our titles are fully paid for and not discounted in any way, even in this adverse market!
Daily News said its relationship with the person they used to call the media henchman is good.
"In this light too, many Zimbabweans will have seen that our relationship with our parent minister, the minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services, Jonathan Moyo, is excellent."
Source - Byo24News
