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State media rebuked for negative news on Mujuru
01 Nov 2014 at 09:33hrs | Views
Zanu-PF secretary for Information and Publicity Rugare Gumbo yesterday called a Press conference to brief the media on Wednesday's Politburo meeting hardly 24 hours after briefing journalists as he emerged from the crunch meeting on Wednesday evening.
Gumbo urged the media to be "positive and objective "in their coverage of VP Mujuru, adding that The Herald had been "unprofessional" in the coverage of VP Mujuru whom he said had "fantastic leadership qualities."
"It was unfortunately quite shocking to see The Herald devoting quite a bit of pages on VP Mujuru. I also saw the private media, Daily News had an extensive coverage of VP Mujuru, but The Herald was particularly negative, damaging and unprofessional.
"This is our public media which is supposed to report positively, but it decided to go to town about allegations which have not been proven in court or otherwise," he said.
Gumbo urged the media to be "positive and objective "in their coverage of VP Mujuru, adding that The Herald had been "unprofessional" in the coverage of VP Mujuru whom he said had "fantastic leadership qualities."
"This is our public media which is supposed to report positively, but it decided to go to town about allegations which have not been proven in court or otherwise," he said.
Source - Herald
