Tag: media

Halt Taliban media autocracy

- TWMN Desk -

The unilateral decree or imposition by Taliban authority in Afghanistan on all women media personalities anchoring news on various public and private television stations to wear masks and cover their whole body except for the eyes or  risk facing the wrath of the law makes sad reading. The new order  effected

Draconian laws hinder Media COVID-19 coverage

- Jeff Kapembwa -

Threats on media houses keen to investigate the shortcomings and evolution of the COVID 19 pandemic last year hindered adversely practitioners trying to provide objective, researched data on the plague and further frustrated efforts to nurture democracies, a report from the Reporters without Borders (RSF) has adduced. With reporters attacked and

Is media accountable to itself?

- Afsan Chowdhury -

It’s a common refrain that media makes, that the Government is not accountable. In fact media survives to some extent by raising such a question. But what the recent Rozina episode did was to pose a big question on the return server: Is media accountable? Are those people working in