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Weekly Media Update 2010-22
The Media Monitoring Project Zimbabwe
Monday June 7th - Sunday June 13th 2010
June 18, 2010

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The week's top stories

Although there was a significant increase in the media's coverage of the constitutional reform programme compared to last week as the nation awaited the launch of the Constitutional Parliamentary Select Committee's outreach exercise (by 58% in terms of the number of stories), the quality of the coverage still raised more questions than answers. Although COPAC inserted supplements in the Press identifying team members and venues for the consultation meetings in many of the country's wards, there was no timetable for these meetings or any reassurances about the security of those making submissions. None of the media followed-up COPAC's advertising initiative and few thought to pursue other issues of evident concern.

In other stories, the Kimberley Process monitor Abbey Chikane's alleged certification of Chiadzwa's controversial diamonds sparked mixed reactions in the media and competed for attention alongside news of fresh tension in the coalition, ignited by blatant attempts to undermine the office of the Prime Minister by senior members of the ZANU PF arm of government.

Fig 1: The most popular stories

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