The Legal Human Right Center (LHRC) has faulted the local media for bias coverage, saying it favours the political elite to the detriment of the popular poverty eradication agenda.
A research by Ananilea Nkya, a member to the civil advocacy group has revealed the media to have failed to effectively contribute to poverty eradication as it confines its coverage in politics, those who make it, the urban elite and public officials.
“Most of the news being reported are urban centric and focused on public officialdom,” Nkya said in Dar es Salaam yesterday while revealing the findings to the reporters.
The research, according to Nkya examined 10,317 news items run over 15 media outlets including daily newspapers, Television and Radio stations for the whole month of February in 2014.
She said the research that was aimed at establishing development issues and perspectives from which they are covered by Tanzania news media, probed 9,607 articles in 11 newspapers out of the 10,371-strong sample of news items including 4,750 (52.8 per cent) from Dar es Salaam region and 5,621 (54.2 per cent) from 24 regions on the Mainland and the Isles.
She said if all news items were considered as valuable development resources or opportunities and equally distributed, each region would enjoy a fair share of 368 opportunities to discuss social, economical and political development issues.
“In so doing, development stakeholders including the government, Non Government Organization (NGO’s) and citizens themselves would take actions to bring solutions to developmental challenges facing the regions,” says part of her report.
“It is high time for Tanzania’s media to change and write news stories that reflect the life of people to fast-track their development in their respective areas,” she said.
She said the political related news stories in the context of her research were those that quoted politicians during political activities such as meeting, public rallies, election campaigns as well as through interviews, press conferences and press discourse.
News under economy category included those that dwelt on issues such as corruption scandals, embezzlement and mismanagement of public funds and the challenges in tax collection using electronic Fiscal Devices (EFD’s), she said.
She said out of 411 news items published as lead stories in the 15 media, 234 (57 per cent) were about politics, whereas 12 (29 per cent) discussed social issues and 56 (14 per cent) covered economic issues.
The number of political related news framed as lead stories were higher in newspapers, as out of the 411 lead news items, 307 (74.7 per cent) were published in the eleven newspapers.
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