Sunday, December 16, 2007

THE MEDIA IN UGANDA.

Uganda has got many media houses where the public acces the latest news and topical debates from around the country.But there is some thing strange about these houses the have their own version of reporting and bringing the news to the consumer.The two most popular news papers that is http://www.newvision.co.ug and the http://www.monitor.co.ug report according to each other, the former is agovernment paper which only talks about the government in good terms and praise it in any way possible where the later hate any thing government they go ahead to publish all the so callled "nonse" in all government organs.Example compare these two articles from both the New vision and Monitor.
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PRIME Minister Apolo Nsibambi has urged his deputy, Kirunda
Kivejinja, to accept defeat and work together with Bugweri MP-elect Abdu
Katuntu. Speaking at the Prime Ministers’ Office end-of-year party at Hotel
Africana on Friday evening, Nsibambi appealed to President Yoweri Museveni to
let to Kivejinja keep his post as Third Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of
Information and National Guidance

Here the New Vision article talks of the prime minister advising the NRM ruling party flag bear hold in eastern district of Busoga to accept defeat of FDC man Katuntu.But the Monitor react to the story in this way

"The National Resistance Movement (NRM) camp is still reeling from the shock results of the December 13 Bugweri parliamentary by-elections that was won by Opposition Forum for Democratic Change’s (FDC) Abdu Katuntu with 14,704 votes, against their candidate, Al-haji Ali Muwabe Kirunda Kivejinja’s 12,829"

this shows the reader that the Monitor news pick is happy of the failure of the NRM flag bearer but the New vision try to show that they have accepted defeat but which people (even the new vision house ) inclusive.

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