The European Union Elections Observer Mission – EU EOM has reported observing extremely skewed media coverage by national broadcaster – ZNBC despite the state owned media having legal obligations of equal coverage. According the the preliminary report availed to the Zambian Business Times – ZBT, the EU EOM stated that the initiated the “media monitoring [process] from 15 July to 12 August across 10 outlets. Their finding are that 1 found that “UPND received 96.2 and 90.5 per cent of airtime, respectively, in election-related news on ZNBC’s TV 1 and Radio 1. During this period, NRPUP presidential candidate, Mr. [Brian]...
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