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Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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Private Print Media, the State and Politics in Colonial and Post-Colonial Zimbabwe (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018)
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This book examines the role played by two popular private
newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from
colonial Rhodesia and the other from the post-colonial era. It
argues that, operating under oppressive political regimes and in
the dearth of credible opposition political parties or as a
platform for opposition political parties, the African Daily News,
between 1956-1964, and the Daily News, between 1999-2003, played an
essential role in opening up spaces for political freedom in the
country. Both newspapers were ultimately shut down by the
respective government of the time. The newspapers allowed reading
publics the opportunity to participate in politics by providing a
daily analytical alternative, to that offered by the government and
the state media, in relation to the respective political crises
that unfolded in each of these periods. The book further examines
both the information policies pursued by the different governments
and the way these affected the functioning of private media in
their quest to provide an "ideal" public sphere. It explores issues
of ownership, funding and editorial policies in reference to each
case and how these affected the production of news and issue
coverage. It considers issues of class and geography in shaping
public response. It also focuses on state reactions to the
activities of these newspapers and how these, in turn, affected the
activities of private media actors. Finally, it considers the cases
together to consider the meanings of the closing down of these
newspapers during the two eras under discussion and contributes to
the debates about print media vis-a-vis the new forms of media that
have come to the fore.
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