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Title: | Whose media, whose agenda? Monitoring the Malawi 2014 tripartite elections |
Authors: | Gaber, Ivor Lora-Kayambazinthu, Edrinnie |
Year: | 2014 |
Periodical: | Ecquid novi: African journalism studies (ISSN 1942-0773) |
Volume: | 35 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 106-114 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Malawi |
Subjects: | elections 2014 mass media social media mass communication |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02560054.2014.964937 |
Abstract: | In 2014 Malawi experienced its first-ever tripartite elections involving presidential, parliamentary and local government contests. The role of the media was monitored in a major operation covering radio, television, newspapers, news websites and social media. The results revealed that, with the exception of state-controlled media, news outlets played a broadly positive role, providing fair coverage for the four leading candidates and reporting on a broad range of topics. Social media provided a lively platform for the views and opinions of mainly partisan participants (presumably mostly from the urban elite). On the negative side, coverage of the presidential and to a lesser extent the parliamentary contests dominated, so that the amount of news about local government issues was minimal. The most important negative aspect of the campaign was the one-sided coverage provided by the two state radio channels, the state television station and its online news service. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |