Zimbabwe's private medua houses did not just "support" MDC; they mollycoddled the party to death!

Violent Gonda (S W Radio Africa) and Dumisani Muleya (Zimbabwe Independent) tackled the important issue of the role Zimbabwe’s private media played in creating the falsehood that MDC was a party of excellence when in reality it is a party of breath-taking incompetence as events have finally shown.

 GONDA: So do you think or do you agree that while the state media may be sympathetic to Zanu PF, the privately owned media is or supports the MDC?

MULEYA: Well to some extent but it’s not that kind of a dichotomy or dialectical situation in which the state media is for Zanu PF, the private media is for somebody else. The difference here is that the private media basically sympathizes with the MDC to the extent that the MDC is doing the things or is upholding the sort of values that the private media believes in.

Thank you very much you two for bring up the important subject of the role the private media has played in the down fall of Tsvangirai and MDC. Their down fall has brought down the whole nation with them!

Violet, it is not a matter of Zimbabwe's privately owned media "supported" Tsvangirai and MDC; they mollycoddled them to death!

 

How many times has the various Zimbabwe private media houses interviewed Tsvangirai and MDC and yet not one of them has ever taken any of the MDC leaders to task on why their party had failed to implement not even one reform.

 

A few months ago CNN’s Becky Anderson took Tsvangirai to task and accused him and his MDC friends of achieving nothing other than legitimizing Mugabe and Zanu PF. The best Zimbabwe’s private media did was to cover the interview without commenting.

 
Zimbabwe’s private media may be privately owned financially but politically it is Tsvangirai who owned them body and soul! For the last ten years they have been MDC’s cheer leaders and, of course; now, with MDC humiliated, many of Zimbabwe’s private houses must be feeling sheepish! And so they should, for years they have portrayed Tsvangirai as a political leader of great talent, insight and ability. Now he has been shown to be just an indecisive and naïve man with no intellectual talent on anything!