Monday 18 July 2011

SOCIETY FOR SENIOR JOURNALIST CALLS ON ZAMBIAN JOURNALISTS TO EXERCISE MAXIMUM CAUTION AND CARE IN THE MANNER THAT THEY INTERPRET INFORMATION IN RELATION TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES

SOCIETY FOR SENIOR JOURNALIST HAS CALLED ON ZAMBIAN JOURNALISTS TO EXERCISE MAXIMUM CAUTION AND CARE IN THE MANNER THAT THEY INTERPRET INFORMATION IN RELATION TO POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES AS THE NATION GOES TO THE POLLS TO AVOID PLUNGING THE COUNTRY INTO CHAOS.
SPEAKING IN AN INTERVIEW WITH RADIO PHOENIX SOCIETY FOR SENIOR JOURNALIST CHAIRPERSON REGIWAY LIWENA SAYS THE JOURNALIST MUST REALIZE THAT THEY HOLD THE KEY TO ENSURING THAT THIS YEAR’S POLLS ARE VIOLENCE FREE BY WRITING THEIR STORIES PROPERLY.
MR. LIWENA SAYS THERE IS NEED FOR JOURNALIST TO DISTINGUISHED BETWEEN POLITICAL VIOLENCE AND CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES IF THEY HAVE TO INTERPRET THE TWO PROPERLY AND DO NOT CONFUSE ANY OF THEM.
HE POINTED OUT THAT THE INCIDENT WHICH HAPPENED IN LUSAKA WEST WERE MUVI TV JOURNALISTS WERE BEATEN AND THEIR CAMERA’S CONFISCATED BY ALLEGED MMD CADRES CAN ONLY BE DESCRIBED TO THAT OF CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AND NOT POLITICAL VIOLENCE.
MR. LIWENA HAS STRESSED THAT JOURNALIST MUST REALIZE THAT THE INFORMATION WHICH THEY GIVE TO PEOPLE CAN EITHER BRING PEACE OR PUT THIS COUNTRY ON FIRE HENCE IT IS IMPORTANT TO EXERCISE MAXIMUM CAUTION AND CARE IN THE MANNER THEY WRITE THEIR STORIES AND DISSEMINATE THE SAME INFORMATION TO THE PUBLIC.
YESTERDAY A MUVI TV NEWS CREW IS REPORTEDLY TO HAVE BEEN ATTACKED AND BEATEN BY ALLEGED RULING MOVEMENT FOR MULTIPARTY DEMOCRACY CADRES WHO LATER ON TRIED TO RAPE TWO WOMEN WHO WERE PART OF THE CREW AND CONFISCATED THEIR CAMERA AND OTHER EQUIPMENT

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